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8138. STATE RIGHTS, Preservation of.—

I am for preserving to the States the
powers not yielded by them to the Union and
to the Legislature of the Union its constitutional
share in the division of powers; and
I am not for transferring all the powers of
the States to the General Government, and all


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those of that government to the Executive
branch.—
To Elbridge Gerry. Washington ed. iv, 268. Ford ed., vii, 327.
(1799)

See Centralization.