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/fhe Avalon Project: The Federalist Papers No. 10 http://avalon.law.ya1e.edu/1 8th_century/fed 10.asi arch Avaion ‘t’—’- Y ik L u School LILLILN GoLDM.N LAV LIBRARY THE AvLoN PROJECT DouunL7ir ut.Lt 1Iror tn1Thp1niacv iii rizcn,nv a! .S’aI (ldeitii A\alon Home Documeil I Medieval 1& Ceniury 1& Century 1i Century l& Century 1911 C’ tury .,O Centuiy 1 Criiury Coll io s 40029 e °° 70 19 1400 14e 3 o S 1599 .v 15 e.c 10 ‘°a The Federalist Papers: No. 10 /O ã/ •7 Previous Document Contents Next Document The Same Subject Continued The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection From the New York Packet. Friday, November 23, 1787. MADISON To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a weliconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to which he is attached, provides a proper cure for it. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries to liberty derive their most specious declamations. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient and modern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger on this side, as was wished and expected. Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny that they are in some degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have been erroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of our heaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed from one end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has tainted our public administrations. By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects. There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence: the other, by giving to every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests. It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency. The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties. The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of Speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-emirience and power; or to persons of other descriptions whose fortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unffiendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who are debtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of the government. No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With of 3 10/22/2008 2:56 PM

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The Same Subject ContinuedThe Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection

From the New York Packet. Friday, November 23, 1787.MADISON

To the People of the State of New York:

AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a weliconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to breakand control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when hecontemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice. He will not fail, therefore, to set a due value on any plan which, without violating the principles to whichhe is attached, provides a proper cure for it. The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils, have, in truth, been the mortaldiseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished; as they continue to be the favorite and fruitful topics from which the adversaries toliberty derive their most specious declamations. The valuable improvements made by the American constitutions on the popular models, both ancient andmodern, cannot certainly be too much admired; but it would be an unwarrantable partiality, to contend that they have as effectually obviated the danger onthis side, as was wished and expected. Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public andprivate faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties,and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested andoverbearing majority. However anxiously we may wish that these complaints had no foundation, the evidence, of known facts will not permit us to deny thatthey are in some degree true. It will be found, indeed, on a candid review of our situation, that some of the distresses under which we labor have beenerroneously charged on the operation of our governments; but it will be found, at the same time, that other causes will not alone account for many of ourheaviest misfortunes; and, particularly, for that prevailing and increasing distrust of public engagements, and alarm for private rights, which are echoed fromone end of the continent to the other. These must be chiefly, if not wholly, effects of the unsteadiness and injustice with which a factious spirit has taintedour public administrations.

By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by somecommon impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.

There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.

There are again two methods of removing the causes of faction: the one, by destroying the liberty which is essential to its existence: the other, by givingto every citizen the same opinions, the same passions, and the same interests.

It could never be more truly said than of the first remedy, that it was worse than the disease. Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment withoutwhich it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be towish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

The second expedient is as impracticable as the first would be unwise. As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it,different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and his passions will have areciprocal influence on each other; and the former will be objects to which the latter will attach themselves. The diversity in the faculties of men, from whichthe rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object ofgovernment. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of propertyimmediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into differentinterests and parties.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to thedifferent circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well ofSpeculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-emirience and power; or to persons of other descriptions whosefortunes have been interesting to the human passions, have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered themmuch more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common good. So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutualanimosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unffiendlypassions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution ofproperty. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. Those who are creditors, and those who aredebtors, fall under a like discrimination. A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests,grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes, actuated by different sentiments and views. The regulation of these variousand interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation, and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations ofthe government.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With

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equal, nay with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts oflegislation, but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens? Andwhat are the different classes of legislators but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It isa question to which the creditors are parties on one side and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are,and must be, themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or, in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail. Shalldomestic manufactures be encouraged, and in what degree, by restrictions on foreign manufactures? are questions which would be differently decided bythe landed and the manufacturing classes, and probably by neither with a sole regard to justice and the public good. The apportionment of taxes on thevarious descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greateropportunity arid temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number,is a shilling saved to their own pockets.

It is in vain to say that enlightened statesmen will be able to adjust these clashing interests, and render them all subservient to the public good.Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. Nor, in many cases, can such an adjustment be made at all without taking into view indirect andremote considerations, which will rarely prevail over the immediate interest which one party may find in disregarding the rights of another or the good of thewhole.

The inference to which we are brought is, that the CAUSES of faction cannot be removed, and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controllingits EFFECTS.

If a faction consists of less than a majority, relief is supplied by the republican principle, which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regularvote. It may clog the administration, it may convulse the society; but it will be unable to execute and mask its violence under the forms of the C cttis ution.When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both thepublic good and the rights of other citizens. To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time topreserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great Object to which our inquiries are directed. Let me add that it is the greatdesideratum by which this form of government can be rescued from the opprobrium under which it has so long labored, and be recommended to the esteemand adoption of mankind.

By what means is this object attainable? Evidently by one of two only. Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same timemust be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert andcarry into effect schemes of oppression. If the impulse and the opportunity be suffered to coincide, we well know that neither moral nor religious motives canbe relied on as an adequate control. They are not found to be such on the injustice and violence of individuals, and lose their efficacy in proportion to thenumber combined together, that is, in proportion as their efficacy becomes needful.

From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, whoassemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost everycase, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check theinducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence andcontention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they havebeen violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind toa perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and theirpassions.

A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure forwhich we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and theefficacy which it must derive from the Union.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number ofcitizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.

The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body ofcitizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it totemporary or partial considerations. Under such a regulation, it may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, willbe more consonant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves, convened for the purpose. On the other hand, the effect may beinverted. Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suifrages,and then betray the interests, of the people. The question resulting is, whether small or extensive republics are more favorable to the election of properguardians of the public weal; and it is clearly decided in favor of the latter by two obvious considerations:

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guardagainst the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of amultitude. Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater inthe small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option,and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult forunworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suifrages of the people being more free, willbe more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

It must be confessed that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging toomuch the number of electors, you render the representatives too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it toomuch, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The federal Constitution forms ahappy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local and particular to the State legislatures.

The other point of difference is, the greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than ofdemocratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter. Thesmaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more frequentlywill a majority be found of the same party; and the smaller the number of individuals composing a majority, and the smaller the compass within which theyare placed, the more easily will they concert and execute their plans of oppression. Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties andinterests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the

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Hence, it clearly appears, that the same advantage which a republic has over a democracy, in controlling the effects of faction, is enjoyed by a largeover a small republic--is enjoyed by the Union over the States composing it Does the advantage consist in the substitution of representatives whoseenlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices and schemes of injustice? It will not be denied that the representation ofthe Union will be most likely to possess these requisite endowments. Does it consist in the greater security afforded by a greater variety of parties, againstthe event of any one party being able to outnumber and oppress the rest? In an equal degree does the increased variety of parties comprised within theUnion, increase this security. Does it, in fine, consist in the greater obstacles opposed to the concert and accomplishment of the secret wishes of an unjustand interested majority? Here, again, the extent of the Union gives it the most palpable advantage.

The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the otherStates. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it mustsecure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or forany other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as sucha malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the diseases most incident to republican government. Andaccording to the degree of pleasure and pride we feel in being republicans, ought to be our zeal in cherishing the spirit and supporting the character ofFederalists.

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ith

whi

chth

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muc

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ent?

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epri

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son

whi

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they

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irst

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mis

rule

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prov

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than

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would

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aqu

alif

ied

nega

tive

upon

the

acts

ofth

ele

gisl

ativ

ebo

dy;

the

oth

erha

san

abso

lute

nega

tive

.T

he

one

would

have

ari

ght

toco

mm

and

the

mil

itar

y

and

nava

lfo

rces

ofth

en

atio

n;

the

othe

r,in

add

itio

nto

this

righ

t,

poss

esse

sth

atof

decl

arin

gw

ar,

and

ofra

isin

gan

dre

gula

ting

flee

ts

and

arm

ies

byhi

sow

nau

tho

rity

.T

he

one

wou

ldha

vea

con

curr

ent

pow

erw

ith

ab

ran

chof

the

legi

slat

ure

inth

efo

rmat

ion

oftr

eati

es;

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oth

eris

the

sole

poss

esso

rof

the

pow

erof

mak

ing

trea

ties

.T

he

one

would

have

ali

keco

ncu

rren

tau

tho

rity

inap

poin

ting

offi

ces:

the

oth

eris

the

sole

auth

or

ofal

lap

poin

tmen

ts.

Th

eon

eca

n

conf

erno

priv

ileg

esw

hate

ver:

the

oth

erca

nm

ake

deni

zens

of

alie

ns,

no

ble

men

ofco

mm

oner

s:ca

ner

ect

corp

ora

tions

wit

hal

l

the

righ

tsin

ciden

tto

corp

orat

ebo

dies

.T

he

one

can

pres

crib

eno

rule

sco

nce

rnin

gth

eco

mm

erce

orcu

rren

cyof

the

nat

ion

;th

e

oth

eris

inse

vera

lre

spec

tsth

ear

bit

erof

com

mer

ce,

and

inth

is

capa

city

can

esta

blis

hm

arke

tsan

dfa

irs,

can

regula

tew

eigh

tsan

d

mea

sure

s,ca

nla

yem

barg

oes

for

ali

mit

edti

me,

can

coin

mon

ey,

can

auth

oriz

eor

pro

hib

itth

eci

rcu

lati

on

offo

reig

nco

in.

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one

has

nopa

rtic

leof

spir

itual

juri

sdic

tio

n;

the

oth

eris

the

supr

eme

head

and

gove

rnor

ofth

en

atio

nal

chur

ch!

What

answ

er

shal

lw

egi

veto

thos

ew

how

ould

pers

uade

usth

atth

ings

sounli

ke

rese

mbl

eea

chot

her?

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esa

me

that

ou

ght

tobe

give

nto

thos

ew

ho

tell

usth

ata

gove

rnm

ent,

the

who

lepo

wer

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hich

wou

ldbe

in

the

hand

sof

the

elec

tive

and

peri

odic

alse

rvan

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the

peop

le,

is

anar

isto

crac

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monar

chy,

and

ade

spot

ism

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the

Peo

ple

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chis

not

wit

ho

ut

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advo

cate

s,th

ata

vig

orou

sE

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tive

isin

cons

iste

ntw

ith

the

geni

usof

republi

can

gove

rnm

ent.

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enli

ghte

ned

wel

l-w

ishe

rsto

this

spec

ies

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ov

ern

men

tm

ust

atle

ast

hope

that

the

supposi

tion

isdes

titu

teof

foundat

ion;

sinc

eth

eyca

nne

ver

adm

itits

truth

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ithout

atth

e

sam

eti

me

adm

itti

ng

the

condem

nat

ion

ofth

eir

own

prin

cipl

es.

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rgy

inth

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xecu

tive

isa

lead

ing

char

acte

rin

the

defi

niti

on

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vern

men

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sent

ial

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epro

tect

ion

ofth

eco

mm

unit

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ains

tfo

reig

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tack

s:it

isn

ot

less

esse

ntia

lto

the

stea

dy

adm

inis

trat

ion

ofth

ela

ws;

toth

epro

tect

ion

ofpro

per

tyag

ains

t

thos

eir

reg

ula

ran

dhig

h-h

anded

coin

bin

atio

ns

whi

chso

met

imes

inte

rru

pt

the

ord

inar

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urse

ofju

stic

e;to

the

secu

rity

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ber

ty

agai

nst

the

ente

rpri

ses

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ults

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bit

ion,

offa

ctio

n,an

dof

anar

chy.

Eve

rym

anth

ele

ast

conv

ersa

ntin

Rom

anst

ory,

know

s

how

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nth

atre

pu

bli

cw

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lige

dto

take

refu

gein

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abso

lute

pow

erof

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ngle

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nd

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rmid

able

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pire

d

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ety

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dit

ins

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hole

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ses

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eco

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un

ity

who

seco

nduct

thre

aten

edth

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iste

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vern

men

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asag

ains

tth

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vasi

ons

ofex

tern

alen

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sw

hom

enac

edth

e

conq

uest

and

des

truct

ion

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ome.

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eca

nbe

none

ed,

how

ever

,to

mult

iply

argu

men

tsor

exam

ples

onth

ishe

ad.

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eble

Exe

cuti

veim

plie

sa

feeb

leex

ecu

tion

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ego

vern

men

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feeb

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rase

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utio

n;an

da

gover

nm

ent

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ver

itm

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acti

ce,

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gove

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ing

itfo

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nte

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atal

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sens

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ill

agre

ein

the

nece

ssit

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wil

lon

lyre

mai

nto

inquir

e,w

hat

are

the

ingre

die

nts

whi

chco

nst

itute

this

ener

gy?

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far

can

they

beco

mbin

edw

ith

thos

eoth

erin

gred

ient

s

whi

chco

nst

itute

safe

tyin

the

rep

ub

lica

nse

nse?

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how

far

does

this

com

bin

atio

nch

arac

teri

zeth

epl

anw

hich

has

been

rep

ort

ed

byth

eco

nven

tion

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he

ingre

die

nts

whi

chco

nst

itu

teen

ergy

inth

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ER

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ity;

dura

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equ

ate

prov

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nfo

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support

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mpet

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pow

ers.

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ein

gre

die

nts

whi

chco

nst

itu

tesa

fety

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ere

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can

sens

ear

e,a

due

depe

nden

ceon

the

peop

le;

adu

ere

spon

sibi

lity

.T

ho

sepo

liti

cian

san

dst

ates

men

who

have

been

the

mos

tce

lebra

ted

for

the

soun

dnes

sof

thei

rpri

nci

ple

san

dfo

rth

eju

stic

eof

thei

rvi

ews,

have

decl

ared

infa

vor

ofa

sing

leE

xecu

tive

and

an

um

ero

us

legi

slat

ure.

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eyha

ve,

wit

hgr

eat

pro

pri

ety,

cons

ider

eden

ergy

asth

em

ost

nece

ssar

yqual

ific

atio

nof

the

form

er,

and

have

regar

ded

this

asm

ost

appli

cable

topo

wer

ina

sing

leha

nd;

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leth

eyha

ve,

wit

heq

ual

pro

pri

ety

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nsid

ered

the

latt

eras

best

adap

ted

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iber

atio

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dw

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m,

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best

calc

ulat

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con

cili

ate

the

conf

iden

ceof

the

peop

lean

dto

secu

reth

eir

priv

ileg

esan

din

tere

sts.

Th

atu

nit

yis

cond

uciv

eto

ener

gyw

ill

not

bedi

sput

ed.

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isi

on,

acti

vity

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crec

y,an

dde

spat

chw

ill

gene

rall

ych

arac

teri

zeth

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ocee

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ina

muc

hm

ore

emin

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degr

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anth

epr

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sof

any

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ater

nu

mb

er;

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inp

rop

ort

ion

asth

enum

ber

isin

crea

sed,

thes

eq

ual

itie

sw

ili

bedi

min

ishe

d.T

his

un

ity

may

bede

stro

yed

intw

ow

ays:

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erby

vest

ing

the

pow

erin

two

orm

ore

mag

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ofeq

ual

dign

ity

and

au

thor

ity;

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vest

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itos

tens

ibly

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em

an,

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ect,

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hole

orin

part

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the

contr

ol

and

cooper

atio

nof

othe

rs,

inth

eca

paci

tyof

coun

sell

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tohi

m.

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the

firs

t,th

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em

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ple;

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ampl

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the

const

ituti

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vera

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the

Sta

tes.

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rsey

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coll

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ht,

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the

only

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tes

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trust

edth

eex

ecut

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auth

ori

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sing

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hth

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met

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stro

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the

un

ity

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have

thei

rpa

rtis

ans;

bu

tth

evo

tari

esof

anex

ecut

ive

coun

cil

are

the

mos

tnu

mer

ous.

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eyar

eb

oth

liab

le,

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tto

equa

l,to

sim

ilar

obje

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ns,

and

may

inm

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exam

ined

inco

nju

nct

ion.

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eex

peri

ence

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ther

nati

ons

wil

laf

ford

litt

lein

stru

ctio

non

this

head

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sfa

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wev

er,

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any

thin

g,it

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usn

ot

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enam

ou

red

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rali

tyin

the

Exe

cuti

ve.

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have

seen

that

the

Achans,

onan

exp

erim

ent

oftw

oP

rtors

,w

ere

induce

dto

abol

ish

one.

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om

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any

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ewJe

rsey

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aco

unci

lw

hom

the

gover

nor

may

cons

ult.

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Ith

ink,

from

the

term

sof

the

con

stit

uti

on

,th

eir

reso

luti

ons

dono

tbin

dhi

m.

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unuus

Con

suls

,an

dbe

twee

nth

em

ilit

ary

Tri

bunes

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how

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atti

mes

subst

itute

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ls.

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ves

usno

spec

imen

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any

pec

uli

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vant

ages

deri

ved

toth

est

ate

from

the

circ

umst

ance

ofth

ep

lura

lity

ofth

ose

mag

istr

ates

.T

hat

the

diss

ensi

ons

betw

een

them

wer

enot

mor

efr

equ

ent

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ore

fata

l,is

mat

ter

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hm

ent,

unti

lw

ead

vert

toth

esi

ngul

arposi

tion

inw

hich

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republi

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asal

mos

tco

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nual

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aced

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dto

the

pru

den

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licy

po

inte

dout

byth

eci

rcum

stan

ces

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est

ate,

and

purs

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byth

eC

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ls,

ofm

akin

ga

divi

sion

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egover

nm

ent

betw

een

them

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he

patr

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gage

din

ap

erp

etu

alst

rugg

lew

ith

the

pleb

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sfo

rth

epre

serv

atio

nof

thei

ran

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tau

thori

ties

and

dign

itie

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chos

eno

ut

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efo

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wer

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ited

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n,

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pu

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cam

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blis

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the

Con

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the

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them

selv

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lot

one

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mai

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eto

gove

rnth

eci

tyan

dits

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eoth

erta

king

com

man

din

the

mor

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tant

prov

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his

exped

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mus

t,no

doubt,

have

had

grea

tin

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nce

inpre

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ting

thos

eco

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riva

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mig

ht

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veem

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the

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pure

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ason

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sens

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esh

all

disc

over

muc

hgre

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caus

eto

reje

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anto

appr

ove

the

idea

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lura

lity

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eE

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any

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ific

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hate

ver.

Wher

ever

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enga

ged

inan

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terp

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urs

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ere

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itbe

apubli

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whi

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ecl

othe

dw

ith

equal

dign

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pec

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alem

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y.F

rom

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er,

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omal

lth

ese

caus

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the

mos

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ter

diss

ensi

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apt

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ring

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hen

ever

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,th

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resp

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ken

the

auth

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dist

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plan

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doper

atio

ns

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ose

who

mth

eydi

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they

should

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fort

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atel

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mos

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port

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em

ost

crit

ical

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genc

ies

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ate.

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wha

tis

stil

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orse

,th

eym

ight

spli

tth

eco

mm

unit

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toth

em

ost

viol

ent

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conci

lable

fact

ions

,ad

her

ing

diff

eren

tly

toth

edi

ffer

ent

indiv

idual

sw

hoco

mpo

sed

the

mag

istr

acy.

452

453

TH

EF

ED

ER

AL

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ER

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Men

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pose

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ely

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thos

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