_ I believe that the maintenance of the rights and authority reserved to the states and to the people _ are the safeguard to the continuance of a free government _ whereas the consolidation of the states into one vast republic, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of that ruin which has overwhelmed all those that have preceded it.
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