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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.
Charles Richard Weld

Born: August, 1813
Died: January 15, 1869 (aged 55)
Bio: Charles Richard Weld was an English writer, known as a historian of the Royal Society.
Known for:
- A history of the Royal society (1848)
- A Vacation in Brittany (1856)
- The Pyrenees, West and East (1859)