I WILL CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE THE ESSENCE OF TRUE FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA. THIS FEW QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTION OF AGITATIONS THAT LED TO TRUE FEDERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - (THE ROOT OF DEMOCRACY WE SEEM TO EMULATE) - SHOULD BE IMBIBED AND INCULCATED INTO THE ARGUMENT-YIELDING POSITIONS OF ALL DELEGATES NOW PRESENT IN THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE HOLDING@NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE, ABUJA. I THEREFORE RECOMMEND - American Democracy: A Documentary Record, Volume 1: 1620 - 1865, Edited By J. Rogers Hollingsworth & Bell L. Wiley, Copyright 1961 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. ... if all possessed the independent spirit of Brutus, who, to his immortal honor, expelled the proud tyrant of Rome and his royal and rebellious race? ... It behooves us, however, to awake, and advert to the danger we are in. ... (now - Boko Haram) ... Our enemies would fain have us lie down on the bed of sloth and security, and persuade ourselves that there is no danger. They are daily administering the opiate with multiplied arts and delusions, an I am sorry to observe... But is there no danger when the very foundations of our civil Constitution tremble? ... _pages 74-76 -Sam Adams on Liberty - American Democracy
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