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" ... working like gravity by night and by day, gaining a little to-day and a little to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated... "
State Normal Monthly - Page 20
by Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia - 1898
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Railway Carmen's Journal, Volume 17

1912 - 1000 pages
...the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the state, and the government of all become consolidated into one. To this I am opposed, because when all government, in little and great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of power, it will render powerless...
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Secession and Constitutional Liberty: In which is Shown the Right ..., Volume 2

Bunford Samuel - 1920 - 448 pages
...to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government...great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and...
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Congress, the Constitution and the Supreme Court

Charles Warren - 1925 - 328 pages
...under the sun ? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body." And again: "When* all government, domestic and foreign, in little...great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another."1 And...
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Civil Rights: Hearings...on S. 1725 and S. 1734

United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1951 - 362 pages
...little tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction until all shall be usurped from the States and the government...consolidated into one. "To this I am opposed, because whenever government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington...
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee

United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1972 - 2004 pages
...from 1 million to 2.6 million in 1966. 478 Thomas Jefferson long ago warned "When all government . . . shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it ... will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." Further, he said, "Were...
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Limitation of Appellate Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, Part 2

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 1114 pages
...all shall he usurped from the States, and the government of all he consolidated into one. To this 1 am opposed, because when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall he drawn to Washington, as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided *...
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Limitation of Appellate Jurisdiction of the United States Supreme Court, Part 2

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1957 - 1146 pages
...until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all he consolidated into one. T" this I am opposed, because when all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in grest things, shall be drawn to AVashington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the...
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Proposed Amendments to Rule XXII of the Standing Rules of the Senate ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration. Special Subcommittee on Amendments to Rule XXII. - 1957 - 380 pages
...Governments. Repudiate that principle and our liberties are lost. Jefferson well said, "When our Government shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power it will become venal and oppressive." Chief Justice John Marshall, speaking for the Supreme Court, declared...
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School Busing: Hearings, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 5 - 1972 - 646 pages
...tomorrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government...government, domestic and foreign, in little as in greater things, shall be drawn to Washington as the centre of all power, it will render powerless the...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...to-morrow, and advancing its noiseless step like a thief, over the field of jurisdiction, until all shall be usurped from the States, and the government of all be consolidated into one. THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter to Charles Hammond, August 18, 1821.— The Writings of Thomas Jefferson,...
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