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Whitelaw Reid: Otherwise he violated the Constitution he had helped to make and sworn to uphold.

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Otherwise he violated the Constitution he had helped to make and sworn to uphold.
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Whitelaw Reid

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Reid asserts that violating the Constitution would be a betrayal of one's oath.

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