"Besides, to lay and collect internal taxes in this extensive country must require a great number of congressional ordinances, immediately operation upon the body of the people; these must continually interfere with the state laws and thereby produce disorder and general dissatisfaction till the one system of laws or the other, operating upon the same subjects, shall be abolished." | by: | Federal Farmer Anonymous writer who wrote a methodical assessment of the proposed United States Constitution |
Source: | Antifederalist Letter, October 10, 1787 |
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