TATE SOVEREIGNTY. 37

ment. The SOVEREIGN WILL reposes essentially
with the people.

All the sage calculations of political writers
abroad, respecting the permanency of the poli-
tical institutions of this country, have proved
fallacious. It was pronounced impossible, and
it looked improbable, that distinct authorities,
as the states were, on the one hand, and the ge-
ral government on the other, could continue to
move on harmoniously, where their powers and
provinces seemed so intimately entangled. Pro-
fessors of the old school politics gaze on the
progressing experiment with perfect astonish-
ment. All their theories are contradicted by
facts. They look around for new principles
whereby to account for the phenomenon by
which distinct, and in some cases, contrary
powers are made to act harmoniously together.
The secret is gradually disclosed—it is but one
sovereign power, that is, THE PEOPLE, that con-
trols, moves, and models the whole machinery
to subserve their own interest. In their hands,
the general and the state governments are alike
hat instruments, worked and fashioned at their
pleasure, for the public good.