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To the People of the State of New York:

The need of a strong central government has never been clearer than as it is now. Despite the long war to break free from the British in order to achieve the interests of a common people, we have again turned ourselves to the direction of faction - a civil war at worst. The Northern States and the Southern States created upon different environments and different interests when they had first come to this soil, still continue to distinguish themselves from each other. A newborn nation is immature in its beginnings, faction in this early stage of government would bring down the effort we had put in the bloody war. Our responsibility as a citizen of this country is to insure our basic rights with social contract. For our government to suffice and serve its people, each citizen should put aside his "prevailing and increasing disgust of public engagement s, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other." We might immediately drive away the effects of the "unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations." "Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." One should be allowed his liberty in religion and other practices of the lie, but not a different party in which he oppressed other parties. One cause of such remedy is the unequal distribution of land. Land distribution directly leads to the distinction of social classes in which each class has its own interests. Regulation of such faction is needed to be controlled by a strong central government that can bring together these separated interests. Faction is also born from bias. A bias that brings different interpretations in the same trauma. Here comes the need of an effective judicial structure that had enforce its just rights and decisions upon the people of this country with an equal eye. Tax must be controlled to its right order as well. Too many a times have citizens of lower classes paid their sweat streaked money to landlords, only to find half of the money goes to the government, the sore mother and nurture of the lower classes, and the other half go right into the greedy hands of the oppressors of the upper class. Only can a strong federal government solve this problem with her legislative branch, which will watch the every steps tax is collected. A solution to such destructive effects of faction is an establishment of a republic. A republic in its representation of the people themselves, rather than the small and narrower works of a democracy, would bring and listen to the interests of the public within its large compass. It would also solve the difficulties democracies experience: the need to regulate the number of representatives to a certain number to perfect enough to represent any individual in the country without being hard to manage. A large republic is the sole cure for this factious fever. "In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. And according to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character of Federalists."

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