Carolina QuotesThe next accusation I shall consider is that which represents the federal constitution, as not only calculated, but designedly framed, to reduce the State governments to mere corporations and eventually to annihilate them.
James Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Speech in the State House Yard (1787)
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- Speech in the State House Yard
- year
- 1787
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Man, fearfully and wonderfully made, is the workmanship of his all perfect Creator: A State; useful and valuable as the contrivance is, is the inferior contrivance of man; and from his native dignity derives all its acquired importance.
To the Constitution of the United States the term SOVEREIGN, is totally unknown.
After all, my fellow-citizens, it is neither extraordinary nor unexpected, that the constitution offered to your consideration, should meet with opposition.