The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . PLATE II (seepage!). Emery W»lker Ltd. sc. THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH 585 that there should be lodged somewhere a supremepower, to regulate aud govern the general concerns ofthe confederated republic, without which the unioncannot be of long duration. ... It is only in ourunited character that we are known as an empire;that our independance is acknowledged; that ourpower can be regarded, or our credit supported amongforeign nations.
The Commonwealth of Nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British Empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereofPt1 . PLATE II (seepage!). Emery W»lker Ltd. sc. THE AMERICAN COMMONWEALTH 585 that there should be lodged somewhere a supremepower, to regulate aud govern the general concerns ofthe confederated republic, without which the unioncannot be of long duration. ... It is only in ourunited character that we are known as an empire;that our independance is acknowledged; that ourpower can be regarded, or our credit supported amongforeign nations. The treaties of the European powerswith the United States of America will have novalidity on a dissolution of the Union. We shall beleft nearly in a state of nature, or we may find, byour own unhappy experience, that there is a naturaland necessary progression from the extreme of anarchyto the extreme of tyranny; and that arbitrary poweris most easily established on the ruins of libertyabused to By hard experience thisplain Virginian gentleman had rediscovered truthsenunciated by the greatest of the Greeks,2 and wasexpressing them almost in the same words. But
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