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“To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.”
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- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9370c548e371f8f011535fab6189c81b94fd9adc97e09791fd0f5e02d52dd4a7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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