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Quote from Daniel Webster,


"If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the Convention refused to baptize it by that name."


By:

Daniel Webster (more quotes by Daniel Webster or books by/about Daniel Webster)


(1782-1852) US Senator

Source:

June 1, 1837; Works 1:403

Categories:

Constitution, Federalism, Independence, Law, Republic, Self-Determination, Sovereignty

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