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SU - 8th Draft
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separate States, without a workable central government. At that
time, the mark of its leaders' vision was that they quickly saw the
need to balance the separate powers of the States with a government
of central powers. They saw that only if the young nation could act
as one nation could the experiment succeed.
And SO they gave us a Constitution of balanced powers, of unity
with diversity -- and so clear was their vision that it survives as the
oldest written Constitution still in force in the world today.
For almost two centuries since -- and dramatically in the 1930s
- - at those great turning-points when the question has been between
the States and the Federal Government, it has been resolved in favor
of a stronger central government. During this time the nation grew
and prospered.
But one thing history tells us is that no great movement goes in
the same direction forever. Nations change, they adapt, or they
slowly die.
And indication of how America has changed is that my home
town of Whittier, California -- with a population of only 67, 000 -- has
a budget for 1971 bigger than the entire Federal budget in 1791.
CONFIDENTIAL
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