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Defending the Constitution
erwise than by a confederation of republics, possessing all the powers of
internal government, but united in the management of their general and
foreign concerns.
If any doubt could have been entertained of the truth of the foregoing
principle, it has been fully removed by the concession of Mr. Wilson, one
of the majority on this question, and who was one of the deputies in the
late general convention. In justice to him, we will give his own words;
they are as follows, viz.: ‘‘The extent of country for which the new Constitution was re