If, then, in the progress of its administration there have been departures from the terms and intent of the compact, it is and will ever be proper to refer back to the fixed standard which our fathers left us and to make a stern effort to conform our action to it.
Pierce calls for adherence to the original intent of the Constitution when there are deviations in governance.
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