To: Timothy Paul
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"...The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation..."
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
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168 posted on
08/25/2003 5:36:54 AM PDT by
vannrox
(The Preamble to the Bill of Rights - without it, our Bill of Rights is meaningless!)
To: vannrox
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Abe Lincoln put an end to that now...and the 14th Amendment encapsulated it setting up unbreakable bonds against the states, shackling them into slavery under a Master Central Government.
169 posted on
08/25/2003 5:39:26 AM PDT by
Maelstrom
(To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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