39/48 The precise text of the North-Carolina proclamation, _mutatis mutandis_, was repeated in each one of those relating to these six States. The process was designed to be exhaustive by fully restoring every connection existing under the Constitution between the States and the National Government. Viewed merely as a theory it was perfect. The danger was that in the test of actual practice it might end like so many similar experiments in other countries. An opponent wittily characterized it as Government by _diagram_, accurately drawn on an Executive blackboard. |