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| Andrew Jackson at Pensacola, Florida - courtesy New York Public Library “The principal object … was to provide a remedy for the existing evil, of being obliged in many Cases to seek for our Laws in an undigested mass of ancient edicts and Statutes, decisions imperfectly recorded, and the contradictory opinions of Jurists; the whole rendered more obscure, by the heavy attempts of commentators to explain them; an evil magnified by the circumstance, that many of these Laws must be studied in Languages not generally understood by the people, who are governed by their provisions.” - Report of the Committee on Proposed Revisions to the Louisiana Code (1825) |
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