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If we now give up that, how will it be possible to devise any regulation, depending upon the performance of another state, which will be thought as efficacious as that we have in our own hands?
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gutenberg.orgJosiah Quincy: “If we now give up that, how will it be possible to devise any regulation, depending upon the performance of another…”
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Quincy questions the feasibility of relying on another state's performance if they abandon their current approach.
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