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To separate the two great Departments of the Government, to keep each within its own sphere, will be an immeasurable advantage and will enhance the character and dignity of both.
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Blaine advocates for the separation of government departments to enhance their integrity and function.
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If this view of the subject be correct, as I think it is, then the Union must utterly perish at the moment when Congress shall arm one part of the people against another for any purpose beyond that of merely protecting the General…
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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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