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Why not send them with our army so that the power of Congress may be felt in battle as well as in the halls of legislation?
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Why not send them with our army so that the power of Congress may be felt in battle as well as in the halls of…”
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Blaine advocates for Congress to have a direct influence on military operations by sending representatives with the army.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
But this is a totally different thing from an offensive war to punish the people for the political misdeeds of their State Government, or to enforce an acknowledgment that the Government of the United States is supreme.
Is any portion of the people bound to contribute their money or their blood to carry on a contest like that?
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