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1730. CONSTITUTIONS (American), Happiness under.—

It is a misfortune that
our countrymen do not sufficiently know the
value of their constitutions, and how much
happier they are rendered by them than any
other people on earth by the governments
under which they live.—
To John Adams. Washington ed. ii, 282. Ford ed., iv, 455.
(P. 1787)


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