Maryland's Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth, Or, the History of ...
Maryland's Influence in Founding a National Commonwealth, Or, the History of ...
Herbert Baxter Adams
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15. (Stuttgart, 1875.) 4 Aristotle, Polit. III., 5, 14. Digitized by LjOOQIC 67 national union with inherent rights of sovereignty. "Constitutions are not made," says Sir James Macintosh, "they grow." The American Repub- lic is the product, not of concessions or concensus, but of development from the existing relations of iMngs. Political interests of a lasting character were entailed upon the Confederation by the possession of a territorial commonwealth. "From the very origin of the government...," said Daniel Webster in his first great speech on the Public Lands in answer to Mr. Hayne of South Carolina, "From the very origin of the government these western lands and the just protection of those who had settled or should settle on them, have been the leading objects in our policy." 1 But we have seen that even before the adoption of our present form of government, these western lands constituted the most vital and absorbing question in American politics. The acquisition of a territorial commonwealth by these states was the foundation of a permanent union; it was the first solid arch upon which the framers of our Constitution could build.
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