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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.
Janette Turner Hospital

Born: November 12, 1942 (age 82)
Bio: Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer who has lived most of her adult life in Canada or the US, principally Boston, Kingston and Columbia.
Known for:
- Orpheus Lost (2007)
- Due preparations for the plague (2003)
- The Ivory Swing (1982)
- The Last Magician (1992)
- The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983)