Experience has taught us that neither the pacific dispositions of the American people nor the pacific character of their political institutions can altogether exempt them from that strife which appears beyond the ordinary lot of nations.
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Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank
Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.
The British cabinet, either mistaking our desire of peace for a dread of British power or misled by other fallacious calculations, has disappointed this reasonable anticipation.
That all violations of the nonimportation act be subjected to adequate penalties.
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