And yet in the face of all this we are now asked to retreat,--to retrace the steps already taken,--to reconsider the vote that has been adopted,--and to confirm in the statutes those words which are there without any sanction in the Constitution, and in defiance of the Declaration of Independence.
He criticizes the idea of reversing progress made in aligning laws with the Constitution and Declaration.
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