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- The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
- Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of…
- I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them…
- We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
- When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws…
- Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
- Some of them, in accepting the proposed plan of government, coupled their acceptance with a recommendation of various additions to the Constitution, which they deemed…
- Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part of…
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