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Fifth (and last) in a Series: John Dickinson and the Ratification of the Constitution 0
- November 2, 2017
Any states that allowed the federal government to interfere in their sovereign jurisdiction would be guilty of a breach of trust, for the “trustees or servants of the several states” were obliged to protect the authority citizens had placed in them.
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John Dickinson’s ‘Farmer’ Letters on Their 250th Anniversary 0
- September 22, 2017
The Farmer letters went well beyond asserting the case against taxation without representation; they also helped clarify American constitutional thinking on other questions, including: Which government responsibilities should be exercised centrally and which locally?
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