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A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide …

A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. James Madison
In 1787 at the constitutional convention, regarding a proposal that was made to allow the federal government to suppress a seceding state.