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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?
• Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued…
• Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of…
• And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the…
• It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general…
• I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into…
• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done,…
• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on…
• You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection,…
• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of…
• The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in…

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