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Institutes Of Moral Philosophy (1769)
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Theory consists in referring particular operations to the principles, or general laws, under which they are comprehended; or in referring particular effects to the causes from which they proceed.
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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
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June 20, 1723
Died:
February 22, 1816
(aged 92)
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