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Thomas Paine - The American constitutions were to...
The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax. (Thomas Paine)

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.

Thomas Paine

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