Native Laws

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    The Iliad represents no creed nor opinion, and we read it with a rare sense of freedom and irresponsibility, as if we trod on native ground, and were autochthones of the soil.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
    James Madison (1751–1836)