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Criticism of the Federal System  All Americans have long been
agreed that the only possible form of government for their
country is a federal one. All have perceived that a centralized
system would be inexpedient, if not unworkable, over so large an
area, and have still more strongly felt that to cut up the
continent into absolutely independent states would not only
involve risks of war but injure commerce and retard in a
thousand ways the material development of every par