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1620. CONSCIENCE, Freedom of.—[continued].

Nor should we wonder
at * * * [the] pressure [for a fixed constitution
in 1788-9] when we consider the
monstrous abuses of power under which *
* * the [French] people were ground to
powder; when we pass in review * * * the shackles on the freedom of conscience.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
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