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1827. May 4. Constitutional Code Ch.XXX. Government Federative

1.

Art.1. Federal Constitution
may be described
analytically
or synthetically.

2.

Art. 2. Analytically, conceive
a number of
sublegislatures, supreme
as to certain
points — not subordinate
to the legislature.

3.

Art.3. Synthetically, conceive
a number of
independent republics
subordinate, as to certain
points, to a central
Legislature, the
members of which
are separated from
such several deputies

4.

Art.4. Of these two
forms, the analytical
the most simple, &
the easiest conceived.

5.

Art.5. Exceptions excepted,
in no instance,
the federal preferable
to the non federal.
Reasons —
1. Complicatedness
2. Difficulty of creation
and preservation
3. Difficulty of effecting
the Constitutive
agreement.
4. Difficulty of expressing
such agreement.
5. Danger of discord.

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6.

Art.6. Reception — necessity
of eventually
resisting hostilities
or conquest from
a powerful nation.

7.

Art.7. Supposing the
necessity established,
an additional reason
is security commencement
of hostilities
between the
States so proposed to
other means.

8.

Art.8. At present, it
is doubtful whether
any such demand
has place.

9.

Art.9. In respect of
security hostility
no clear demand,
comparison had to
other means.

10.

Art.10. Evils of a federal
constitution
in comparison of
separateness.
1. Magnitude of territory,
thence of distance
and tardiness of communication
with
the control seat of
government.

This tardiness more
obvious in the judiciary
than in
the administrative
department.
True it is, that by
the registration and
publication system
of their Pannomion
the evil is minimized.

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10 Contind.

Yet the quantity
would still constitute
a serious and
preponderant objection.

11.

Art.11. Exceptions
excepted, states propose
for federation
will of course be
conterminous.

12.

In such case,
subject matters of
consideration are
1. Adjustment of territorial
limits, as
between state & state.
2. Adjustment of limits
as to territory
of uncivilized tribes,
which may in future
be added to the
confederating states.
3. adjustment as
to trading with civilized
tribes.

13.

Art.13. State, sooner
or later, uncivilized
tribes will disappear
by extirpation
or by absorption —
Means of extirpation
by the hands of
conterminous civilized
states & intoxicating
liquors, or
by the hands of other
uncivilized tribes,
of absorption by civilization
of tribes
families, or individuals,
or by conversion
to a civilized
mode of life.

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Date_1	1827-05-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-13
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	012	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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