State Chartered Banks

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    “Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.”
    —Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)

    “When he speaks,
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    —Unknown. Babylon; or, The Bonnie Banks o’ Fordie (l. 9–14)