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3982. INSURRECTION, American people and.—[continued].

In no country on earth is
[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)