“The circumstances of the world are continually changing,
\nand the opinions of men change also; and as Government is
\nfor the living and not the dead, it is the living only
\nthat has any right in it.
\nThat which may be found right and found convenient in one
\nage may be thought wrong and inconvenient in another.
\nIn such cases, who is to decide, the living or the dead?”
\nThomas Paine.
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