The Confederacy and the Execution of Resolutions and Decrees

The rulers of the respective members, whether they have a constitutional right to do it or not, will undertake to judge of the propriety of the measures themselves. All this will be done in a spirit of interested and suspicious scrutiny without that knowledge of national circumstance and reasons of state which is essential to a right judgment. The same process must be repeated in every member of which the body is constituted. Execution of the plans, framed by the councils of the whole, will always fluctuate on the discretion of the ill-informed and prejudiced opinion of every part.