And here I leave this head of the argument, concluding as I began, that you cannot adopt this pretended Amendment without setting at defiance the great maxim of constitutional liberty which was the rallying cry of our fathers.
He concludes that adopting a certain amendment would contradict the foundational principles of constitutional liberty.
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