The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in…

Frederick Douglass
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The American Constitution is a written instrument full and complete in itself. No Court in America, no Congress, no President, can add a single word thereto, or take a single word threreto. It is a great national enactment done by the people, and can only be altered, amended, or added to by the people. ✨ The Constitution of the United States: Is It Pro-Slavery or Anti-Slavery? by Frederick Douglass, March 26, 1860.
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