After examining their proceedings with minuteness and searching severity, he asserted that they were without authority, and in flagrant violation of the rights of the bank, and of the principles on which the freedom of this people had been founded.
Quincy emphasizes the importance of authority and accountability in governance.
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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.
He knew how little a majority of the men of his own time were disposed or qualified to estimate his character with justice.
Adams replied: "I have no hesitation to say I hold that act unconstitutional and void.
The spirit of freedom and the spirit of slavery are drawing together for the deadly conflict of arms.
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