I have thought that the United States should act with a generous spirit; that they should omit nothing which should comport with a liberal construction of the instrument and likewise be in accordance with the just rights of those tribes.
James Monroe: “I have thought that the United States should act with a generous spirit; that they should omit nothing which should…”
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