It was the deliberate homage of each people to the great principle of our federative union.
Get up a committee from the Federative to go and ask Mr. Loring if there's any use in our tryin' to hold on.
And it may be asserted without fear of refutation that no federative government could exist without a similar provision.
This body was consequently elected, and met at Frankfort, by the side of the old Federative Diet.
But the federative diet weakened and enervated its designs by those secret influences all federations naturally possess.