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" ... the ill-fated moment for relaxing the powers of the Union, annihilating the cement of the confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politics, which may play one State against another, to prevent their growing importance, and to... "
The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous ... - Page 442
by George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1835
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COLLECTIONS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY SECOND SERIES

James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...ruin their National Character forever, — this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government as will enable it to answer the...Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politicks, which may play one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve...
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COLLECTIONS OF THE MAINE HISTORICAL SOCIETY SECOND SERIES

James Phinney Baxter - 1914 - 518 pages
...ruin their National Character forever, — this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government as will enable it to answer the...Confederation, and exposing us to become the sport of European politicks, which may play one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve...
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Secession and Constitutional Liberty: In which is Shown the Right ..., Volume 1

Bunford Samuel - Constitutional law - 1920 - 416 pages
...only for the States to be wise, and to establish their independence on the basis of an ... union." * "This may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the...politics, which may play one State against another . . . For according to the system of policy the States shall adopt at this moment, they will stand...
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Readings in American Democracy

Thames Williamson - Social history - 1922 - 572 pages
...establish or ruin their national character forever; this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal government, as will enable it to answer the...exposing us to become the sport of European politics. . . . For, according to the system of policy the states shall adopt at this moment, they will stand...
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Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of ...

Stuart Leibiger - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 300 pages
...establish or ruin their national Character forever, this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the...politics, which may play one State against another ... to serve their own interested purposes. For, according to the system of Policy the States shall adopt...
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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - Philosophy - 2003 - 852 pages
...European politics," manipulated by great powers. Now is "the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution": at stake was not only whether "the Revolution" was "a blessing or a curse" for Americans and "the present...
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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic

John Ferling - History - 2003 - 576 pages
...American independence. In time, he cautioned, steps would have to be taken "to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution." Otherwise, America once again would "become the sport of European politics." Following his retirement,...
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The American Way of Strategy: U.S. Foreign Policy and the American Way of Life

Michael Lind - History - 2006 - 304 pages
...June 8, 1783, George Washington wrote that "this is the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the...to become the sport of European politics, which may lay one State against another to prevent their growing importance, and to serve their own interested...
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Magnanimity and Statesmanship

Carson Holloway - Political Science - 2008 - 244 pages
...Confederation," could America be independent. Now is "the favorable moment to give such a tone to our Federal Government, as will enable it to answer the ends of its institution": at stake was not only whether "the Revolution" was "a blessing or a curse" for Americans and "the present...
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 45

English literature - 1783 - 742 pages
...give fuch a tone to the federal government as will enable it to anfwer the ends of its inftitution; or this may be the ill-fated moment for relaxing the...annihilating the cement of the confederation, and expoling us to become the fport of European politics, which may play oneftate againft another, to prevent...
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