On the record
The utmost to be done is to palliate, to mitigate, to respite, to put off the evil day of the Constitution to its latest possible hour,--and may it be a very late one!
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Edmund Burke
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Burke suggests that the best approach is to delay constitutional issues as long as possible.
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