Excerpt from The Federal Union and the States: Address of Hon. Coe I. Crawford; Before the Lincoln Association of Jersey City, N. J., February 12, 1912 The Constitution was ordained and established by the People Of the United States, as declared in its preamble, and not by a group Of artificial public corporate bodies called states. James Wilson, look ing through these artificial structures, saw beyond them and recognized that at the foundation Of the great super-structure were human beings - men and women with warm, human blood in their veins, and that the government was Of them, by them, and for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.