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Least of all can it be predicated of any government professing to be founded upon an original compact.
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “Least of all can it be predicated of any government professing to be founded upon an original compact.”
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Quincy states that the concept of absolute power cannot apply to governments that claim to be based on a social contract.
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