Denial Quote by Caleb Cushing

“It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition.”

Caleb Cushing

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We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

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These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission…

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The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon…

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The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States,…

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Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this…

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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

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Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People.

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