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I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
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Sherman believes that enforcing bad laws strictly is the best way to repeal them.
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The legality of this legislature was denied by the great majority of the people who never acquiesced in or obeyed its enactments, thus taking the only course open to them to secure a lawful government.
But some of you may say, all this is very well, but what will you do to save the Union?
But, sir, I have no hope, while this House is constituted as it is now, of instituting any radical reform.
Thus the Kansas question became a political question in the Supreme Court.
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