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Moreover, the Congress could not levy any taxes, or indeed pass any measure unless nine out of the thirteen States agreed, and the Constitution could not be amended except by unanimous vote.
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Beck points out the difficulties faced by Congress in enacting laws due to the requirement of state agreement.
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The men who framed the Covenant of the League tried to do, under more difficult, but not dissimilar, conditions, what the framers of the American Constitution did in 1787.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
I do so, because it has a direct bearing on the decay of the spirit of constitutionalism both in America and elsewhere.
Assuredly, the man of to-day, with the rich heritage of countless ages, can do no less.
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