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7626. RIGHTS OF MAN, Legislators and.—

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized
of the rightful limits of their power;
that their true office is to declare and enforce
only our natural rights and duties, and to
take none of them from us.—
To F. W. Gilmer. Washington ed. vii, 3. Ford ed., x, 32.
(M. 1816)