Legal Opinion
Stone Ex Rel. Estate of Stone v. Frontier Airlines, Inc.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided April 17, 2002No. CIV.A. 01-11817-WGYPublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
YOUNG, Chief Judge.
[T]he Constitution professed to solve what was an apparently insoluble political problem.... [I]t purported to create a consolidated federal government with powers sufficient to coerce obedience to national laws — in effect, to discipline a truly continental union — while remaining true to the republican principles of 1776. At least logically, this was an impossibility, since the core impulse of these republican principles, the original “spirit of ’76,” was an instinctive aversion to coercive political power of any sort and a thoroughgoing dread of the…
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