The propriety of Congress passing an enabling act authorizing the Territorial legislature of Utah to legitimize all children born prior to a time fixed in the act might be justified by its humanity to these innocent children.
Grant proposed that Congress might justify legitimizing children born to plural wives out of humanitarian concerns.
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A power should exist complete in its organization, ready to take and able to maintain its place among the nations of the earth.
The merchants, manufacturers, and tradesmen of every calling could do business on a fair margin of profit, the money to be received having an unvarying value.
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