Common sense isn't.
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A construction of the Constitution practised upon or acknowledged for a period of nearly forty years, has received a national sanction not to be reversed but by an evidence at least equivalent to the national will. If every new Congress were to disregard a meaning of the instrument uniformly sustained by their predecessors for such a period, there would be less stability in that fundamental law than is is required for the public good in the ordinary expositions of the law. And the case of the Chancellor's foot, as a substitute for an established measure, would illustrate the greater as well as the lesser evil of uncertainty and mutability. |
~ Letter to Joseph C. Cabell, March 18, 1827 (James Madison, 1865, III, page 573) ~ |
Common sense isn't.
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