There are 2 quotes that John read from that were inaudible; here they are:
1.Federalist 39:
"The idea of a national government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful government. Among a people consolidated into one nation, this supremacy is completely vested in the national legislature."
2.James G. Blaine (one of the radical Republican Congressmen)
“... and in making this extension of citizenship, we are not confining the breadth and scope of our efforts to the negro. It is for the white man as well. We intend to make citizenship National. Heretofore, a man has been a citizen of the United States because he was a citizen of some one of the States: now, we propose to reverse that and make him a citizen of any State where he chooses to reside, by defining in advance his National citizenship…and we asked the people of the revolted States to consent to this condition as an antecedent step to their re-admission to Congress with Senators and Representatives.”