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644. AUTHORITY, Upholding.—

In no
country on earth is it [forcible opposition to the
law] so impracticable as in one where every
man feels a vital interest in maintaining the
authority of the laws, and instantly engages
in it as in his own personal cause.—
To Benjamin Smith. Washington ed. v, 293. Ford ed., ix, 195.
(M. 1808)