Richard Henry Lee, former President of the united States in Congress assembled, using the penname “The Federal Farmer,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, warning that if the proposed Constitution for the united States is ratified it will result in the dissolution of the Union of Sovereign States and their amalgamation into an indivisible nation. In paragraph ten he writes,
We may do away the several state governments, and form or consolidate all the states into one entire government, with one executive, one judiciary, and one legislature, consisting of senators and representatives collected from all parts of the union: In this case there would be a compleat [sic] consolidation of the states.
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References:
Murray Dry, The Anti-Federalist: An abridgement, from The Complete Anti-Federalist by Herbert J. Storing, ed., (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1985), 32, 38.
Federal Farmer I
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