I have therefore undertaken on no occasion to prescribe the religious exercises suited to it, but have left them, as the Constitution found them, under the direction and discipline of the church or state authorities acknowledged by the several religious societies.
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I request their return, and that their contents may not be made public.
Everyone must be sensible that in the details of instructions for negotiating a treaty and in the correspondence and conferences respecting it matters will occur which interest sometimes and sometimes respect or other proper motives forbid…
The great volume of the documents and the time necessary for the investigation will explain to the Senate the causes of the delay which has intervened.
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