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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 4 68 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 12 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men 4 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Some great constitutional questions. (search)
alone are sovereign and are represented by E. They have set two servants to work in the same field. They control both and prevent conflict. The house is not divided against itself. The able writer who said the problem left us by the Convention is to harmonize National and State sovereignty, loses sight of the people—to use Madison's expression. The only sovereignty is theirs. C and D are always agents subject to it. There was no such problem! It may be well to say here that Hon. George F. Edmunds and Hon. David Dudley Field, as the former shows in the North American Review, seem to think teetering or seesawing is going on, as to dominance, between the General Government and the States, and they call it a principle! and conclude that the great duty or problem is to keep equilibrium! In conclusion, It is painful to test by truth, doctrines taught by great and revered teachers, and reduce them to falsity; but the duty is imperative and vital to institutional freedom, and