If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

If a thing has been practised for two hundred years by common consent, it will need a strong case for the Fourteenth Amendment to affect it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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