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He deemed it a fundamental principle that Congress had no right to take away or abridge the constitutional right of petition.
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Quincy asserts that Congress cannot infringe upon the constitutional right to petition.
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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.
As a treaty of commerce it will be indeed of little use to us, and we shall never obtain anything more favorable so long as the principles of the navigation act are obstinately adhered to by Great Britain.
But the first principles of morals and politics, which have long been settled, acquire the authority of self-evident truths, which, when first discussed, may have been vehemently and portentously contested.
I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time round the standard of Common Sense.
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