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1184. CENTRALIZATION, Venality and.—

When all government, domestic and
foreign, in little as in great things, shall be
drawn to Washington as the centre of all
power, it will render powerless the checks
provided of one government on another, and
will become as venal and oppressive as the
government from which we separated.—
To C. Hammond. Washington ed. vii, 216.
(M. 1821)