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1173. CENTRALIZATION, Liberty and.

—It is a singular phenomenon, that while our
State governments are the very best in the
world,
without exception or comparison, our
General Government has, in the rapid course
of nine or ten years, become more arbitrary,
and has swallowed more of the public liberty
than even that of England.—
To John Taylor. Washington ed. iv, 260. Ford ed., vii, 311.
(M. 1798)