Governor's Message (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Governor's MessageSoon after the achievement of our independence, the great and good men who conducted the revolution, met in Convention and entered upon the work of forming a Consti tutien, and establishing the government Upon a permanent basis. In that convention it was discovered that great di versity of Opinion existed, as to the proper form of the per manent government. Some very able and in¿uential per sons favored the plan of a limited monarchy, similar to that of Great Britain, or some other strong government which would consolidate the sovereignty of the States in the em pire, and place the supreme power in the hands of the few. Many, who did not aspire to the throne in case of the as tablishment of monarchy, no doubt, looked for positions as ministers at court, or for dukedoms and other grades of noble hereditary distinction that would elevate them and their posterity to permanent ruling positions above the great mass of their fellow-citizens. This class of persons Opposed the great doctrine of Saw: Rig/its and sought to divest the States of their sovereignty, and virtually to con vert them into mere provinces of a consolidated central power. The doctrines of this class of statesmen were, however, suc cessfully combated in the convention by the great cham pions of the doctrine of State 8000? Eigmy, who succeeded in procuring the sanction of the convention to a constitution, which, while it delegated to the general government such attributes of sovereignty as were necessary to conduct the foreign affairs of a confederation of States, and to regulate such internal affairs between the States necessary to the good of the whole as were beyond the control of a single State confederated with sister States, reserved to each State its inherent sovereignty, with power to exercise all its at tributes except such as were expressly granted to the gen eral Government, or such as were necessary to carry into effect the delegated powers.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.