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8127. STATE RIGHTS, Constitution and.—

I am firmly persuaded that it is by
giving due tone to the particular governments
that the general one will be preserved
in vigor also, the Constitution having foreseen
its incompetency to all the objects of
government, and, therefore, confined it to
those specially described.—
To James Sullivan. Ford ed., v, 369.
(Pa., 1791)