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6641. PERSONAL LIBERTY, Lettres de cachet.—

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 the person by
Lettres de Cachet.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)