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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…
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I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into…
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of…
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Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith?
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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…
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And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the…
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It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general…
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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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