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The power of the present Congress to enact laws essential to the welfare of the people has been struck with apoplexy by the executive hand.
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Quincy argues that the executive branch has incapacitated Congress's ability to legislate for the people's welfare.
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Adams replied: "I well know this; but labor I shall not refuse so long as my hands, my eyes, and my brain, do not desert me.
He dismissed from office, without trial, without charge, and without fault, faithful and able men.
Can you wonder that they shrink from the light of free discussion--that they skulk from the grasp of freedom and of truth?
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.
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