Lanterna Rally

Author: Frederic Ellsworth Kip

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 9781331395836

Excerpt from Equal Opportunity for All as Against Special Benefits to a Privileged Few The beginning of our Nation was the coming together into a Federation in 1787 of the thirteen original States. Each colony previous to that had had full control of everything within its borders as an individual sovereignty. The thirteen original States were called together by Washington, and the proposition presented was a commercial and not a political one. From this call of Washington the Constitution of the United States was in 1787 the outcome. There was at that time a condition of confusion in these thirteen original States, there being things that none of them could individually properly control, and they were therefore compelled to give unto the Collective States - the Federal Government - certain of those things which made confusion and chaos by attempt of individual state control. How did they arrive at a conclusion relative thereto? They used as a basis to determine that which should come under Federal control and law, the test as to whether the matter was of general or universal interest as opposed to local or individual state interest. Interstate commerce consisted of business activities extending beyond the borders of any one state; therefore, no one individual state could properly control same; hence, in 1787 the Constitution gave the Federal Government control over all interstate commerce. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.