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Show Only a Question of Time Before Congress Wipes Out State Boundaries By JUDGE FRANK JOHNSTON, JR., Chicago. Congress is breaking down the integrity of the states. If the present course is persisted In it is only a question of time when congress will wipe out state boundaries. The people of the states will be governed by bureaucrats bureau-crats at Washington, and not by state officials elected by the people. These bureaucrats will not be responsible to the people. Today the constitutional provisions and safeguards against a central administration are being honored more-in the breach than in the observ-, ance. They are treated as if they were ""trifles light as air." Overzealous people find it easier to pass one law for all the states through congress than forty-eight laws, one for each state. ... . . The desire to legislate at Washington has become a disease. The evil of overregulation by law threatens the safety of our government. The passing of laws has become an American mania. It ia one of the most serious menaces to our liberty. ' The invasion of personal 'rights today is assuming the form of despotism. des-potism. It is creating a hostile attitude on the part of the people against the law. I was about to say that we need a new magna charta. But our rights of. individual freedom are defined. All we have to do is to protect these rights. . .I |