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that it abridges the authority of the State governments,No. XLIV.318
B. the new Constitution will not prove fatal to the State governments, 319
a. because of the tendency, in confederacies, to despoil the General government of its delegated powers, 319
b. because the State governments will possess more influence among the People, 321
c. because the State governments are constituent and essential parts of the Fœderal government, 321
d. because the employees of the United States will be less numerous than those of the States, 321
e. because the powers reserved by the States are relatively greater and more numerous than those which are delegated to the Union, 323
f. because the proposed change consists less in the addition of new powers to the Union, than in the invigoration of its old ones, 324
g. because the State governments will possess more influence among the People, resumed, XLV. 325
i. the State and the Fœderal governments are in fact only different agents for the People, with different powers and for different purposes, 325
ii. they both depend on the sentiments and sanction of common constituents for their respective powers, 325
iii. the first and most natural attachment of the People will be to their respective State governments, 326
i. from the greater number of offices in the latter, 326
ii. from the character of the interests which they provide for, 326
iii. from the greater familiarity of the People with them, 326
iv. from the history of the country during the war, 326
iv. if the popular favor should rest on the Fœderal government, it will be only because that will be better administered than the others, 327
h. because the prepossessions of the members of the Fœderal government will be in favor of their States, 327
i. because the respective States possess the means of defeating Fœderal encroachments, 329
j. because other States would sympathize with the suffering State, and combine for its support, 330
k. the objection, that the military power will be in the Fœderal government, answered, 330
i. the impossibility of collecting a force for such a purpose, 331