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CHAPTER I.-THE ACTORS-THEIR MOTIVES AND PURPOSES.
The order and date of her ratification; and her vote
The substance of the objections
Her statesmen denounce consolidation
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CHAPTER III. - CONNECTICUT FEDERALISES HERSELF.
What her statesmen said
"We the people" means Connecticut
Her ratification
CHAPTER IV. -NEW YORK FEDERALISES HERSELF.
What her statesmen thought of the system
Ratification in confidence of amendments
Decisive proof that "we the people" means New York
Her present autocratical declarations
CHAPTER V. - NEW JERSEY FEDERALISES HERSElf.
The order and date of her ratification; and her vote.
The views of her statesmen
"We the people" of New Jersey
CHAPTER VI. PENNSYLVANIA FEDERALISES HERSELF.
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She associates as a sovereign
Views of her statesmen
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Whom did she mean by we the people"?
Her ratification.
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CHAPTER VIII. - VIRGINIA FEDERALISES HERSELF.
Virginia to remain a sovereign
The order and date of South Carolina's ratification; and her vote
The explanation of the system to her
The order and date of Georgia's ratification; and her vote
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CHAPTER X.- NEW HAMPSHIRE FEDERALISES HERSELF.
New Hampshire's assertion of her statehood.
"We the people" of New Hampshire
THE FEDERAL SYSTEM ESTABLISHED AND FINISHED
The convention unanimous in this view
The congress of states takes the same view
The putting of the agency at work
The view of congress as to the system being then completed
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CHAPTER XI. - NORTH CAROLINA FEDERALISES HERself.
Date of rejection of constitution; and vote
Her idea of the union expressed by Iredell and others
The sovereign rejects the league.
The sovereign ratifies the league.
Her rejection of the compact by vote of her people
Her ratification .
Washington's view of the act
Finis coronat opus
THE REPUBLIC OF REPUBLICS
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The identity of character of the two unions-diagram to face p.
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CHAPTER XIV. - THE TESTIMONY OF THE CONSTITUTION.
PART III.
FALLACIOUS EXPOSITION.
CHAPTER I.-CHARGES AND EXPOSITIONS IDENTICAL.
Testimony of Washington, Hamilton and Madison
Comparison of charges and expoundings
1. The states made into one state . .
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2. The change from a federacy to a nation
3. The general government a sovereignty.
4. The government the final judge of its authority
5. A state and a county equal in rights.
Opposition of Henry, Martin, Lowndes, et alii
The federal simulacrum
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CHAPTER II.-WHO MAKES "SUPREME LAW"?
Interpretation of the "Massachusetts school"
"What is our system?" is matter of fact
How the public convictions were produced
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CHAPTER IV. SOME SAMPLES OF "SOPHISMES."
INTERPRETATION No. 5.-The Supreme Law clause
The fathers' idea of the "supreme law"
Views of Hamilton, Iredell, Davie, Parsons, et alii
Views of Madison, Hamilton, Randolph, Seward, Greeley, et alii
The expounders prove too much
INTERPRETATION
No. 6. Partly federal and partly
Justice Story's effort.
An effort of Mr. Webster's in this line
Testimony of the Federalist; sophistry of the expounders
CHAPTER VI. ADROIT SUBSTITUTIONS.
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