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And are patriotic men in any part of the Union prepared on such issue thus madly to invite all the consequences of the forfeiture of their constitutional engagements?
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He questions whether patriotic citizens are willing to risk the consequences of abandoning their constitutional commitments.
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And then both reason and right combine not merely to justify but to require its repeal.
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