As most of the text in this book consists of quotations from different sources, inconsistencies in spelling, punctuation, and hyphenation have been retained. Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines also have been retained.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks were retained except as noted below.
Page 47: Closing quotation mark added after “to its ratification....”.
Page 56: Closing quotation mark added after “something for nothing.”.
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