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178 application. They are in fact but a selling of our birthright of Freedom for a mess of pottage, which in turn is withdrawn as a necessary economic effect of them; are always an offense against Liberty, which, therefore, makes it impossible that we should be too grateful to those patriots who devised the Supreme Court of the United States, that has saved us from such danger throughout all the years of the Constitution.

The answer, therefore, to our title is not that price fixing endangers Liberty; but that it absolutely obliterates it.

For these and so many other reasons it cannot, therefore, be believed that a statute can be found that can, by any possibility be construed to violate more principles of "discovered"—that is, as has been pointed out, eternal law, protected by our Constitution, than the Lever Act thus improperly construed; nor, indeed, that any Act or any conspiracy could so fatally restrain trade, and insure continued scarcity. Is it not, therefore, still safe to believe that "Impius et crudelis judicandus est, qui libertati non favet. Angliae jura in omni casu libertati dant favorem?"