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1162. CENTRALIZATION, Corruption and.—

Our government is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will
pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation
first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
The engine of consolidation will be
the Federal judiciary; the two other branches
the corrupting and corrupted instruments.—
To Nathaniel Macon. Washington ed. vii, 223.
(M. 1821)