“No position appears to me more true than this; that the General Govt. can not effectually exist without reserving to the States the possession of their local rights. They are the instruments upon which the Union must frequently depend for the support and execution of their powers, however immediately operating upon the people, and not upon the States.” – Charles Pinckney, “Plan for a Government for America,” Constitutional Convention, June 25, 1787. In the mural detail above, from the the US Archives, Charles Pinckney is pictured at the far left.
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