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6834. POWERS, Conflicting.—

The peculiar
happiness of our blessed system is,
that in differences of opinion between these
different sets of servants [in the three departments
of the Federal Government], the
appeal is to neither, but to their employers,
peaceably assembled by their representatives
in convention.—
To Spencer Roane. Washington ed. vii, 214. Ford ed., x, 190.
(M. 1821)