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Laws might forbid or ignore such a contingency, but it would come; and when it came it could not be resisted, but had to be acknowledged and declared, to prevent unnecessary sacrifice and ruin.
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Sherman argues that laws cannot prevent economic contingencies, which must be acknowledged to avoid disaster.
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