Our political machine, composed of thirteen independent sovereignties, have been perpetually operating against each other and against the federal head ever since the peace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are always two forces warring against each other within us.
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
We now have a political process, we've had a period of parties that have been fighting each other quite literally with bombs and bullets, talking to each other, and having sat together in the assembly and sharing government with each other.
We have become bound by a political straitjacket that frames every debate: Too much federal government. Yet our forefathers forged this system for us. The federal government can accomplish what the states, acting alone or even in concert, cannot.
Let a durable and firm peace be established and this government be confined rigidly to the few great objects for which it was instituted, leaving the States to contend in generous rivalry to develop, by the arts of peace, their respective resources, and a scene of prosperity and happiness would follow, heretofore unequaled on the globe.
The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.
What we are witnessing now is a clash of civilisations, not just between states but within them.
We are now physically, politically, and economically one world and nations so interdependent that the absolute national sovereignty of nations is no longer possible.
We are organized, we are moving forward, and the Clinton machine may not like it, but we're prepared for the fight.
It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.