 |
PM |  | |
Quote | | |
Reply | | |
Full Topic | |
| Joined: | Mon Nov 21st, 2005 |
| Location: | California USA |
| Posts: | 6399 |
| Status: |
Offline
|
| Mana: |    |
The local fiction writer makes a dubious claim. It was not a federal convention, to claim so is to construct an opposite meaning of a word, as if doing so makes the word have the opposite meaning for everyone. That works, to change the meanings of words, so long as enough people are inspired to repeat, and repeat, and repeat, the counterfeit meaning.
"There are but two modes by which men are connected in society, the one which operates on individuals, this always has been, and ought still to be called, national government; the other which binds States and governments together (not corporations, for there is no considerable nation on earth, despotic, monarchical, or republican, that does not contain many subordinate corporations with various constitutions) this last has heretofore been denominated a league or confederacy. The term federalists is therefore improperly applied to themselves, by the friends and supporters of the proposed constitution. This abuse of language does not help the cause; every degree of imposition serves only to irritate, but can never convince. They are national men, and their opponents, or at least a great majority of them, are federal, in the only true and strict sense of the word."
New Constitution Creates a National Government;
Will Not Abate Foreign Influence;
Dangers of Civil War And Despotism.
Maryland Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser, March 7, 1788.