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John Adams

There seems to be a direct and formal design on foot, to enslave all America. This, however, must be done by degrees. The first step that is intended, seems to be an entire subversion of the whole system of our fathers, by the introduction of the canon and feudal law into America.

John Adams, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765).

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