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So that, by changing the sense of that single word, some ten or twenty different constitutions could be made out of the same written instrument.
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Lysander Spooner
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gutenberg.orgLysander Spooner: “So that, by changing the sense of that single word, some ten or twenty different constitutions could be made out of the…”
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Spooner explains how changing the interpretation of a single word can lead to multiple constitutions.
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