Note 154 — VI THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AS SEEN IN THE PAST

‘The Legislative Department is everywhere (i.e. in all the States) extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.... It is against the enterprising ambition of this department that the People ought to indulge all their jealousy and exhaust all their precautions’ (The Federalist, No. XLVII). The people have now begun to resort to precautions; but it is not the ambition of State legislatures that is feared, it is their subserviency to private interests or the party machine.