It was to our fathers like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land--it has enabled them to transmit to us a fair and glorious inheritance--if we suffer revolutionists to rob us of this birth right "then we are bastards and not sons.
Daggett reflects on the historical significance of the Constitution as a source of strength and inheritance for future generations.
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Can any man doubt either the truth of this remark or the sincerity with which it is uttered?
In the mean time all subordinate tribunals will partake of the same character.--Thus instead of a government of laws, there will be the tyranny of a desperate faction.--Let no one reply that there is no danger of such evils in Connecticut.
One part of this cost will be an increase of the violence of parties.
Look also at these Delegates from ninety- seven towns, and say if they can have any other object in view but the dignity, happiness and glory of their country?
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