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"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."

George Sutherland, English Judge

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"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."

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"If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned."

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