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Andrew Jackson: “If those which are clearly granted shall be found incompetent to the ends of its creation, it can at any time apply for…”

On the recordDecember 3, 1832
If those which are clearly granted shall be found incompetent to the ends of its creation, it can at any time apply for their enlargement; and there is no probability that such an application, if founded on the public interest, will ever be refused.
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Andrew Jackson
Democratic · Tennessee

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