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  1. Without presuming to decide the purely legal question, on which it seems evident to me from Madison's and Hamilton's papers that the Fathers of the Constitutio…

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  2. There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities, such as More, Bacon, Grotius, P…

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  3. Whenever a single definite object is made the supreme end of the State, be it the advantage of a class, the safety of the power of the country, the greatest ha…

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