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Federal Sovereignty Quotes
…the navigable rivers and waters leading into the same, shall be common highways, and for ever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said state as to other citizens of the United States, withou...
States' Rights Quotes
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the inhabitants of that portion of the Missouri territory included within the b...
Compromise Quotes
And be it further enacted, That the said state shall consist of all the territory included within the following boundaries, to wit… (2.1)