Excerpt from The Works of James Wilson, Vol. 2: Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, and Professor of Law in the College of Philadelphia; Being His Public Discourses Upon Jurisprudence and the Political Science; Including Lectures as Professor of Law, 1790-2
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