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[Doug Millison]

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/10/books/10ELLIST.html

"Jefferson's core conviction was that what might be called ''the spirit of
'76'' had repudiated all energetic expressions of government power, most
especially power exercised from faraway places, which included London,
Philadelphia or Washington. In terms of domestic policy, he believed the
states were sovereign and the federal government established by the
Constitution was, as he put it, ''a foreign government.'' Marshall's core
conviction was that the spirit of '87 had trumped the spirit of '76,
transforming the loose confederation of states into a coherent nation
guided by a duly elected federal government empowered to make laws for all
the American people. "