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... The two first, by being hereditary, are independent of the People; wherefore in a CONSTITUTIONAL SENSE ... As I have always considered the independency of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later must ... Whoever says No to this question is an independent, for independency means no more, than, whether we ... Can we but leave posterity with a settled form of government, an independent constitution of its own, ...