Showing posts with label Balance of Federalism vis a vis individual state governments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Balance of Federalism vis a vis individual state governments. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
On Federalism: Government “Of the People, By the People, For the People” — Yet, All United as One Nation, Bound Together in the Sacred Covenant of Citizenry
“The more a man aims at serving America the more he serves his colony. We have been too free with the word independence. We are dependent on each other — not totally independent states… When I entered that door, I considered myself a citizen of America.”
- Dr. Benjamin Rush, c. end of July, 1776.
Pennsylvania Delegate to the Continental Congress,
On the subject of how states' voting rights should be allocated, during deliberations concerning the Articles of Confederation
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