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1908 Federal Usurpation 1908

handle is hein.beal/fedusu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FEDERAL USURPATION BY FRANKLIN PIERCE OF THE NEW YORK BAR Author of The Tariff and the Trusts If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation, for this, though it may in one instance be the instrument of good, is the ordi- nary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. WASHINGTON. It is my duty and my oath to maintain inviolate the right of the States to order and control under the Consti- tution their own affairs by their own judgmnent exclusively. Such maintenance is essential for the preservation of that balance of power on which our institutions rest. LINCOLN. NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1908