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3086. FORMALITIES, Principles and.—

No government can disregard formalities
more than ours. But when formalities are
attacked with a view to change principles,
* * * it becomes material to defend formalities.
They would be no longer trifles,
if they could, in defiance of the national will,
continue a foreign agent among us whatever
might be his course of action.—
To E. C. Genet. Washington ed. iv, 92. Ford ed., vi, 464.
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