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"We
are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school,
to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk
of the political interests committed to our charge." --Fisher Ames,
speech in the United States House of Representatives, 1789 |
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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
States of America. |
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