This opinion struck directly at all right of property held under the authority of the royal charter, and, followed to its logical conclusions, would have proved the utter impotence of the royal charter to confer power of government, any more than it could convey property in the soil.
Quincy warns that the implications of the previous opinion could undermine the authority of the royal charter entirely.
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Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
If we were bound to do it, we were bound to do it avowedly and above-board.
A single breath blew all his mock-judicial array into air and smoke.
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