MR. SOMERS.

Perhaps, still more will be expected. For it may not be enough to tell

us, what usurpations there were, or even by what means they became

successful. It should further appear, methinks, that these usurpations,

though they suspended the exercise of the people’s liberties, did not

destroy them; did not, at least, annihilate the Constitution from which

those liberties were derived.

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