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The effect of the constitution has been obvious in the preponderance it has given to the slave-holding states over the other states.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “The effect of the constitution has been obvious in the preponderance it has given to the slave-holding states over the…”
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He critiques the Constitution for favoring slave-holding states, highlighting its impact on national balance.
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Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.
Though conscious, being then in his seventy-eighth year, that he stood on the threshold of human life, he sought no relaxation from duty, no exemption from its performance.
The argument for the annexation, or reännexation, of Texas is as gross an imposture as ever was palmed upon the credulity of an honest people.
They have transmitted that freedom to you; and upon you now devolves the duty of transmitting it unimpaired to your posterity.
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