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e use of such language as this: Will you tell us we ought to trust you because you now enter into a solemn compact with us? This you have done before, and now treat with the utmost contempt. Will you now make an appeal to the Supreme Being, and call on Him to guarantee your observance of this compact? The same you have formerly done for your observance of the Articles of Confederation, which you are now violating in the most wanton manner. Luther Martin's Genuine information, in Wilbur Curtiss's Secret proceedings and Debates of the Convention, p. 29. It is needless to multiply the proofs that abound in the writings of the fathers to show that Webster's new vocabulary was the very language they familiarly used. Let two more examples suffice, from authority higher than that of any individual speaker or writer, however eminent—from authority second only, if at all inferior, to that of the text of the Constitution itself—that is, from the acts or ordinances of ratification b