Why America Is The Way It Is

'I believe that a loss of independent internal power by our Confederate states and an acquisition of supreme power by the federal department,or by any branch of it will substantially establish a consolidated republic over all the territories of the United States though a federal phraseology might remain; that this consolidation would produce a monarchy however limited, checked and balanced would finally become a complete tyranny.'

- John Taylor (1753-1824), 'Tyranny Unmasked' (1805)