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answer of Madison to the objections raised by Patrick Henry. Tench Coxe of Pennsylvania, one of the ablest political writers of his generation, in answering a similar objection, said: If the Federal Convention had meant to exclude the idea of union — that is, of several and separate sovereignties joining in a confederacy— they would have said, We, the people of America ; for union necessarily involves the idea of competent States, which complete consolidation excludes. American Museum, February, 1788. More than forty years afterward, when the gradual accretions to the power, prestige, and influence of the central government had grown to such extent as to begin to hide from view the purposes for which it was founded, those very objections which in the beginning had been answered, abandoned, and thrown aside, were brought to light again, and presented to the country as expositions of the true meaning of the Constitution. Webster, one of the first to revive some of those early mis