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The object is, by false assertions, to induce a belief that no Constitution exists and that tyranny prevails.
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gutenberg.orgDavid Daggett: “The object is, by false assertions, to induce a belief that no Constitution exists and that tyranny prevails.”
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Daggett accuses opponents of spreading falsehoods to undermine the existing Constitution and promote tyranny.
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The freemen of Connecticut are mighty when they arise in their strength.
Such is the constant termination of such revolutions, and shall we claim to be an exception?
My fellow citizens human nature is the same here as in France--Then before you give ear to the songs of enchantment Count the Cost--Before you sell your birthright for a mess of pottage Count the Cost.
Let not then the projector persuade us to adopt his theories with proofs of their danger thus glaring before our eyes.
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