 The disinclination of the individual states to yield competent powers to Congress for the Federal Government, their unreasonable jealousy of that body, and of one another, and the disposition which seems to pervade each, of being allwise and allpowerful...  The North American Review - Page 2591827Full view - About this book
 | Timothy Pitkin - United States - 1828 - 552 pages
...letter to the governor of Virginia, referring to the want of power in the federal government, says, " the disinclination of the individual states to yield...our downfall as a nation. This is as clear to me, as A, B, C, and I think we have opposed Great Britain, and have arrived at the present state of peace... | |
 | Josiah Conder - North America - 1830 - 362 pages
...party, of which Mr. Jefferson was the avowed head.-)- Owing * Edinb. Review, No. xcviii. p. 595. " The disinclination of the individual States to yield...competent powers to Congress for the Federal Government," was the language of Washington, "their unreasonable jealousy of that body and of one another, and the... | |
 | Josiah Conder - Canada - 1830 - 360 pages
...party, of which Mr. Jefferson was the avowed head.-)- Owing • Edinb. Review, No. xcviii. p. 595. " The disinclination of the individual States to yield...competent powers to Congress for the Federal Government," was the language of Washington, " their unreasonable jealousy of that body and of one another, and... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 572 pages
...what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. The disinclination of the individual States to yield...itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be this paper to General Washington. The brief reply in the above letter prevented its being laid before... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1835 - 568 pages
...what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. The disinclination of the individual States to yield...itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be this paper to General Washington. The brief reply in the above letter prevented its being laid before... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1835 - 580 pages
...what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. The disinclination of the individual States to yield...itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be this paper to General Washington. The brief reply in the above letter prevented its being laid before... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 576 pages
...what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. The disinclination of the individual States to yield...itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be thia paper to General Washington. The brief reply in the above letter prevented its being laid before... | |
 | Thaddeus Allen - United States - 1847 - 574 pages
...prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. ' The disinclination of the individual States to yield...our downfall as a nation. This is as clear to me as A, B, C; and I think we have opposed Great Britain, and have arrived at the present state of independency,... | |
 | George Washington - United States - 1855 - 574 pages
...what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance. The disinclination of the individual States to yield...itself, will, if there is not a change in the system, be this paper to General Washington. The brief reply in the above letter prevented its being laid before... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - United States - 1855 - 516 pages
...their predictions. Many true men almost despaired of the commonwealth. Washington, in 1784, wrote : " The disinclination of the individual states to yield...allwise and all-powerful within itself, will, if there be not a change in the system, be our downfall as a nation. ... I think we have opposed Great Britain,... | |
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