But I found his first use of this principle even more apt:
"; for it will be found that the power retained by individual states, small as it is, will be a clog upon the wheels of the government of the United States; the latter therefore will be naturally inclined to remove it out of the way. Besides, it is a truth confirmed by the unerring experience of ages, that every man, and every body of men, invested with power, are ever disposed to increase it, and to acquire a superiority over every thing that stands in their way. "
The Founders seemed to count heavily upon the States to be a check to the national government's accretion of power.
Absent some event I can't imagine ( though, God willing, He can) the States will in a few generations be less than handmaidens to the national government.
( The good articles are always posted so late.)