It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

It's not tyranny we desire; it's a just, limited, federal government.

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.

I don't bow down to the federal government.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.