James Madison,
Consolidation — Essays, #2
(1791)
“ But if a consolidation of the States into one government be an event so justly to be avoided, it is not less to be desired, on the other hand, that a consolidation should prevail in their interests and affections ”
James Madison,
Consolidation — Essays, #2
(1791)
“ Were the State governments abolished, the same space of country that would produce an undue growth of the executive power, would prevent that control on the Legislative body which is essential to a faithful discharge of its trust; neither the voice nor the sense of ten or twenty millions of people, spread through so many latitudes as are comprehended within the United States, could ever be combined or called into effect, if deprived of those local organs, through which both can now be conveyed. ”
James Madison,
Consolidation — Essays, #2
(1791)
“ In such a state of things, the impossibility of acting together might be succeeded by the inefficacy of partial expressions of the public mind, and this at length, by a universal silence and insensibility, leaving the whole government to that self directed course which, it must be owned, is the natural propensity of every government. ”
