He said if these efforts were not stopped, the North some day would be powerful enough to change the Constitution and end slavery everywhere.

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You know of course that this is absolutely crucial to the study of the law to this day: what are the grounds for understanding the meaning of the Constitution, for example?

你们当然知道,今天这些问题对于法学研究很关键：,比如，理解宪法的,根据是什么？

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