To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliance, however strict, between the parts can be an' adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances... The Making of the American Nation: Or, The Rise and Decline of Oligarchy in ... - Page 330 by J. Arthur Partridge - 1866 - 523 pages Full view - About this book
