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ancestors have always most zealously asserted, and transmitted to us, as our best Birthright and Inheritance; (16) so that every attempt to set the same aside in any degree, or in any part of the empire; or to corrupt it by undue influence of places and pensions, or bribes with public money, is Treason against the Constitution; the highest of Treason: (17) and there-
