American States
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Whole states · several American States · the several American States · the states
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The individual American states, whose diverse local interests and habits are compared to England's religious sects and whose autonomy the constitutional line is meant to protect.
It designed to draw a plain line between the foreign relations of the United States, and the internal concerns of each state;
The several American States also entertained a variety of opinions and habits, fixed by real interest, more reasonable and more stubborn, as being derived from natural and unconquerable circumstances.
The Genius of the Common Law
US states credited with simplifying and rationalizing real actions, unlike English law.
It might have been better to simplify and rationalize the principal real actions, as indeed several American States have done.