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economy
of the American system
of Jurisprudence, & of
the secular nature of
our government are
surely important subjects,
on which women should
inform themselves.

The brave heroes of
our revolution, seeing the
evils in the old world
from a union of church
& state, built the foundations
of our Republic so securely
against all ecclesiastical
power as to show us, that
they understood the work
they had in hand.

Such fear had they of