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Neither crime had its origin in the political institutions or its growth in the social organization of the country.
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gutenberg.orgJames Blaine: “Neither crime had its origin in the political institutions or its growth in the social organization of the country.”
Editor's note · Context
Blaine argues that the political and social systems of the country did not cause the presidential assassinations.
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The States are colleagues of one another, and if some of them shall conquer the rest, and hold them as subjugated provinces, it would totally destroy the whole theory upon which they are now connected.
And if Congress shall break up the present Union by unconstitutionally putting strife and enmity and armed hostility between different sections of the country, instead of the domestic tranquility which the Constitution was meant to insure…
Under such circumstances, to send a military force into any State, with orders to act against the people, would be simply making war upon them.
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