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It needs no argument to show that legislation which has produced such baneful consequences should be abrogated, or else made to conform to the genuine principles of republican government.
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Johnson argues for the repeal of harmful legislation that contradicts republican principles.
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My object in this communication is to suggest certain defects in the Constitution which seem to me to require correction.
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No power exists in the Constitution authorizing the joint resolution or the supposed law--the only difference being that one would be more palpably unconstitutional and revolutionary than the other.
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