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1645. CONSTITUTION (The Federal) Action by the States. mdash; [further continued] .

No news from North Carolina; but in such a case no news is good
news, as an unfavorable decision of the 12th
State would have flown like an electrical
shock through America and Europe.—
To Mr. Shippen. Washington ed. ii, 484.
(P. Sep. 1788)