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Caleb Cushing

" You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. "

People , states , Constitution , Rejection , State

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" The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress. "

People , Right , Power , Congress , Constitution

" The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. "

Mission , World , Evil

" These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever. "

Will , Rights

" This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. "

Doctrine

" You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. "

People , states , Constitution , Rejection , State

" We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. "

Government , Hope , May

" Men of Virginia, countrymen of Washington, of Patrick Henry, of Jefferson, and of Madison, will ye be true to your constitutional faith? "

Will , Men , Faith , Washington

" It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the denial of the right of petition. "

Right , Mind , Order , Denial , Rejection

" I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms. "

Time , Question , Slavery , Protest

" Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. "

People , Virtue , Government , Intelligence , Gentlemen , Republican , Forget

" Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles. "

Gentlemen , Question , Opinions , Principles

" The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have been cited. It has been said that those petitions were not received. "

Trade , states , Slavery