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5609. NATION (United States), Building the.—

The interests of the States ought
to be made joint in every possible instance,
in order to cultivate the idea of our being
one nation, and to multiply the instances in
which the people shall look up to Congress
as their head.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. i, 347. Ford ed., iv, 52.
(P. 1785)