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Quote from Orville Browning,


"Be assured that if this new provision [the 14th Amendment] be engrafted in the Constitution, it will, in time, change the entire structure and texture of our government, and sweep away all the guarantees of safety devised and provided by our patriotic Sires of the Revolution."


By:

Orville Browning (more quotes by Orville Browning or books by/about Orville Browning)


(1806-1881) US Senator for Illinois

Date:

1867

Categories:

Civil Rights, Constitution, Equality, Federalism, Sovereignty, Statism, Taxation

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