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It would take a long speech to prove, point by point, that
everything he will say will be intended to hoodwink and mislead you. Most of his
topics I will pass over, but I will mention one leading point which you will
bear in mind. Watch all his pleas, however various, and see if he will be able
to advance one to prove his contention that a legislator may justly make the
same ordinance for bygone issues, already determined, as for cases yet to come.
Every clause of his law is infamous and outrageous; but that provision is the
most outrageous and unconstitutional of all.
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