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- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided…
- If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.
- We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties.
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