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 CH. III.] of the case may require. These conclusions may not always be avowed; but they How naturally from the doctrines, which we have under consideration. They go to the extent of reducing the government to a mere confederacy during pleasure; and of thus presenting the extraordinary spectacle of a nation existing only at the will of each of its constituent parts. 37