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2371. ECONOMY, Rigorous.—[continued].

We are endeavoring to
reduce he government to the practice of a
rigorous economy, to avoid burthening the
people, and arming the magistrate with a
patronage of money, which might be used to corrupt and undermine the principles of our
government.—
To M. Pictet. Washington ed. iv, 463.
(W. 1803)