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"It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based
on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a
system partly federal and partly consolidated, and who would convert
ours into one either wholly federal or wholly consolidated, in
neither of which forms have individual rights, public order, and
external safety, been all duly maintained, they aim a deadly blow at
the last hope of true liberty on the face of the Earth." --James
Madison, Notes on Nullification
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PREAMBLE
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We, the people of the United States, in order to
form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic
tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our
posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
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