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Therefore I do not look beyond; but, senators, the people of the United States of America will never permit an usurping Executive to break down the securities for liberty provided in the Constitution.
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Blaine emphasizes the importance of constitutional protections against executive overreach, highlighting the people's role in safeguarding liberty.
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This ratio of influence went into the Electoral College, and gave to the white men of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana double the power of that enjoyed by white men in New York, Illinois and California.
I believe that if it should pass it will receive the sanction of nineteen-twentieths of the loyal people of the country.
It was the insane folly of the South, in drawing the sword against the life of the Nation, that led irresistibly to the abolition of slavery.
That is his work and it cannot properly be taken out of his hands.
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