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You are really guilty of weakening your own prerogatives under the Constitution by asking me to assent to their existence.
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Blaine warns that requesting presidential assent to a resolution could undermine constitutional prerogatives.
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Of course the Rebellion will never be suppressed in Louisiana if the professed Union men there will neither help to do it nor permit the Government to do it without their help. . . .
I refer myself not to the men of my time, but to the judgment of history.
An attempt to guarantee and protect a revived State government constructed in whole or in preponderating part from the very element against whose hostility and violence it is to be protected is simply absurd.
Such an opportunity would have been a menace to the public credit, and would have proved a constant source of corruption.
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