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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.
Earle Birney

Born: May 13, 1904
Died: September 3, 1995 (aged 91)
Bio: Earle Alfred Birney was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.
Known for:
- Turvey : a military picaresque (1949)
- One Muddy Hand
- Essays on Chaucerian irony (1985)
- The Essential Earle Birney
- Fall by fury, & other makings (1978)