The Constitutional Criterion

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In quef'tions of private right, precedents are law. The obfervance of them is u'm'verfal, and therefore, fué/zantz'aljufiice the public faith is bledged for ir, the public credit depends upon it. They 'compofe the tommon medium of civil intercourfe, and fhould, like our coin, be preferved religioufly from alteration or dimunmon. But in queftions that regard the Confiitutibn, they lofe a principal part of their force, wbat 1 hem, is by no(3)

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