Abel Upshur-Our Federal Government, 1843

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It is a truth, however, no less melancholy than incontestable, that if this ever was the view of the people, it has ceased to be so. And it could not be otherwise. Whatever be the theory of our Constitution, its practice, of late years, has made it a consolidated government; the government of an irresponsible majority. – Abel Upshur, Our Federal Government, 1843

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