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[31] Republican government, he argued, was “only suited to a small and compact territory” such as a state. He fearfully predicted that the federal Leviathan that would emerge from the Constitutional Convention would become an unmanageable behemoth whose growth the states (and therefore the people) would be powerless to control. [Luther Martin]
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The only way to keep the federal monstrosity in check would be to limit more strictly the authority of the federal government, thus guaranteeing the right of the people to govern themselves locally in all but a few areas. [Luther Martin]
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