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Nothing can be plainer than this,--that by no parliamentary device or knot can any Legislature tie the hands of a succeeding Legislature, so as to prevent the full exercise of its constitutional powers.
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He emphasizes that no legislative body can bind future legislatures from exercising their powers.
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