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Our constitution and government are perfectly free, and our laws are mild, equitable and just.
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Daggett describes the freedoms and fairness of Connecticut's government and legal system.
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Could you see them approach their dust with such language on their tongues, you would see them retreat with horrible confusion from these relicks of departed worth.
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.
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Another part of this expense will be the elevation of men to office who are unworthy of public confidence.
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