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Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promi

Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin, letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789 November 13th

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