Adams deemed and maintained, was unconstitutional; and he called upon the supporters of the bill to point out the article, section, or paragraph, of the constitution, which authorized Congress to confer it on the President.
Quincy critiques the constitutionality of a bill regarding the President's authority over Louisiana, showcasing Adams' commitment to constitutional limits.
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The seeds of this complicated machine were all sown in the Declaration of Independence; and their fruits can never be eradicated but by the dissolution of the Union.
But circumstances will do more than any negotiation.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
No man can be surprised that such a cause was swept away by a moral and political whirlwind; that it carried with it all the institutions of civil society, so that its march was a wild desolation.
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