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1167. CENTRALIZATION, Enumerated Powers and.

—To take from the States all the
powers of self-government and transfer them
to a general and consolidated government,
without regard to the special delegations and


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reservations solemnly agreed to in [the Federal] compact, is not for the peace, happiness
or prosperity of these States.—
Kentucky Resolutions. Washington ed. ix, 468. Ford ed., vii, 300.
(1798)