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Sovereignty of the states ... rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, ... all pretensions of human rights and privileges" were imperiled if not lost by the change.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “Sovereignty of the states ... rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press, ... all pretensions of human…”
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Beveridge warns about the potential loss of fundamental rights with changes to governance.
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There can be little doubt that a majority of the people did not favor the Constitution when adopted by the Convention and ratified by the States.
What a gloom will spread over the nation when he is gone!
These had power To charm through life and cheer his dying hour.
The Experiment, with its foundations laid on universal Suffrage and an unfettered and licentious Press is of too violent a nature for our excitable People.
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