So long as the connection is voluntary we need, perhaps, anticipate few of those difficulties and little of that dependence on the banks which must attend every such connection when compulsory in its nature and when so arranged as to make the banks a fixed part of the machinery of government.
Martin Van Buren: “So long as the connection is voluntary we need, perhaps, anticipate few of those difficulties and little of that…”
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Van Buren discusses the implications of voluntary versus compulsory connections with banks.
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