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1172. CENTRALIZATION, Judiciary drives [further continued] .

There is no danger I apprehend
so much as the consolidation of our government by the noiseless, and, therefore,
unalarming instrumentality of the Supreme
Court. This is the form in which federalism
now arrays itself, and consolidation is the
present principle of distinction between republicans
and the pseudo-republicans but real federalists.—
To William Johnson. Washington ed. vii, 278. Ford ed., X, 248.
(M. 1823)