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The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. To contend for our own liberty, and to deny that blessing to others, involves an inconsistency not to be excused.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg/220px-An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg/330px-An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg/440px-An_Appeal_to_Heaven_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States_(1777%E2%80%931795).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281777%E2%80%931795%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people; each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection. As a nation we have made peace and war: as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies: as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign States.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hopkinson_Flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Hopkinson_Flag.svg/220px-Hopkinson_Flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Hopkinson_Flag.svg/330px-Hopkinson_Flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Hopkinson_Flag.svg/440px-Hopkinson_Flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Betsy_Ross_flag.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Betsy_Ross_flag.svg/220px-Betsy_Ross_flag.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Betsy_Ross_flag.svg/330px-Betsy_Ross_flag.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Betsy_Ross_flag.svg/440px-Betsy_Ross_flag.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>Americans are the first people whom heaven has favored with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing forms of government under which they should live.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_the_United_States_(1795-1818).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg/220px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="116" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg/330px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg/440px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281795-1818%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /></a><figcaption>As a nation we have made peace and war: as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies: as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign States.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg/220px-AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg/330px-AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg/440px-AdoptionOf13thAmendment.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2207" data-file-height="2456" /></a><figcaption>Slaves, though held by the laws of men, are free by the laws of God.</figcaption></figure> <p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay" class="extiw" title="w:John Jay">John Jay</a></b> (<a href="/wiki/12_December" class="mw-redirect" title="12 December">12 December</a> <a href="/wiki/1745" class="mw-disambig" title="1745">1745</a> – <a href="/wiki/17_May" class="mw-redirect" title="17 May">17 May</a> <a href="/wiki/1829" class="mw-disambig" title="1829">1829</a>) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, and jurist, who was one of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" class="extiw" title="w:Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States of America</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes">Quotes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Quotes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Slaves</b>, though held by the laws of men, <b>are free by the laws of God</b>. <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=y3RaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA69&dq=%22We+intend+this+Constitution+to+be+the+great+charter+of+human+liberty+to+the+unborn+%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI2ai6jcCsxwIVRRs-Ch38_wz2#v=onepage&q=%22We%20intend%20this%20Constitution%20to%20be%20the%20great%20charter%20of%20human%20liberty%20to%20the%20unborn%20%22&f=false">"The Present Aspect of the Slavery Question"</a> (18 October 1859), by George William Curtis, <i>Orations and Addresses of George William Curtis</i>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1770s">1770s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 1770s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.</b> <ul><li><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Address_to_the_People_of_Great_Britain"><i>Address to the People of Great Britain</i></a>, drafted by Jay and approved by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Continental_Congress" class="extiw" title="w:First Continental Congress">First Continental Congress</a> (21 October 1774); as contained in <i>American Eloquence</i>: A Collection of Speeches and Addresses by the Most Eminent Orators of America, Volume 1, ed. Frank Moore, D. Appleton (1872), p. 159</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>The Americans are the first people whom heaven has favoured with an opportunity of deliberating upon and choosing forms of government under which they should live. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.johnjayinstitute.org/resources/publications/john-jays-charge-to-the-grand-jury-of-ulster-county-1777-and-charge-to-the/">Charge to the Grand Jury of Ulster County</a> (1777).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Letter_to_Lindley_Murray_(1774)"><span id="Letter_to_Lindley_Murray_.281774.29"></span>Letter to Lindley Murray (1774)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Letter to Lindley Murray (1774)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Among the strange things of this world, nothing seems more strange than that men pursuing happiness should knowingly quit the right and take a wrong road, and frequently do what their judgments neither approve nor prefer.</b> Yet so is the fact; and this fact points strongly to the necessity of our being healed, or restored, or regenerated by a power more energetic than any of those which properly belong to the human mind. <br /> <b>We perceive that a great breach has been made in the moral and physical systems by the introduction of moral and physical evil; how or why, we know not; so, however, it is, and it certainly seems proper that this breach should be closed and order restored.</b> For this purpose only one adequate plan has ever appeared in the world, and that is the Christian dispensation. In this plan I have full faith. <b>Man, in his present state, appears to be a degraded creature; his best gold is mixed with dross, and his best motives are very far from being pure and free from earth and impurity.</b> <ul><li>Letter to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley_Murray" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Lindley Murray">Lindley Murray</a> (22 August 1774), as published in <i>The Life of John Jay</i> (1833) by William Jay, Vol. 2, p. 345.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1780s">1780s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 1780s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>The <a href="/wiki/Bible" class="mw-redirect" title="Bible">Bible</a> is the best of all books</b>, <b>for it is the word of <a href="/wiki/God" title="God">God</a> and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next</b>. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts. <ul><li>Letter to Peter Augustus Jay (April 9, 1784). <i>(citation needed, no such quotation exists in his letters collected by the National Archive)</i></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Our people had been so long accustomed to the practice and convenience of having slaves, that very few among them even doubted the propriety and rectitude of it. Some liberal and conscientious men had indeed, by their conduct and writings, drawn the lawfulness of slavery into question. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vindicatingthefounders.com/library/jay-to-english-society.html">Letter to the President of the English Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves</a> (June 1788).</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Letter_to_Reverend_Doctor_Price_(1785)"><span id="Letter_to_Reverend_Doctor_Price_.281785.29"></span>Letter to Reverend Doctor Price (1785)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Letter to Reverend Doctor Price (1785)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=dkssAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA174&dq=%22That+men+should+pray+and+fight+for+their%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAmoVChMI75Wyh9_RxwIVjBk-Ch2XYgdH#v=onepage&q=%22That%20men%20should%20pray%20and%20fight%20for%20their%22&f=false">Letter to Reverend Doctor Price (27 September 1785)</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>That men should pray and fight for their own freedom</b>, <b>and yet keep others in slavery</b>, <b>is certainly acting a very inconsistent</b>, <b>as well as unjust and</b>, <b>perhaps</b>, <b>impious part</b>, but the history of mankind is filled with instances of human improprieties.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Letter_to_R._Lushington_(1786)"><span id="Letter_to_R._Lushington_.281786.29"></span>Letter to R. Lushington (1786)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Letter to R. Lushington (1786)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://econfaculty.gmu.edu/wew/quotes/slavery.html">Letter to R. Lushington (15 March 1786)</a></small></dd></dl> <ul><li><b>It is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished</b>. The honour of the States, as well as justice and humanity, in my opinion, loudly call upon them to emancipate these unhappy people. <b>To contend for our own liberty</b>, <b>and to deny that blessing to others</b>, <b>involves an inconsistency not to be excused</b>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Federalist_Papers"><i>The Federalist Papers</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: The Federalist Papers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Federalist_No._2_(1787)"><span id="Federalist_No._2_.281787.29"></span>Federalist No. 2 (1787)</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Federalist No. 2 (1787)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._2" class="extiw" title="w:Federalist No. 2">Federalist No. 2</a>" (31 October 1787), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers" class="extiw" title="w:The Federalist Papers">The Federalist Papers</a></i>.</b></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>With equal pleasure I have as often taken notice, that Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country, to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs, and who, by their joint counsels, arms and efforts, fighting side by side throughout a long and bloody war, have nobly established their general Liberty and Independence.</li></ul> <ul><li>This country and this people seem to have been made for each other, and it appears as if it was the design of Providence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties.</li></ul> <ul><li>Similar sentiments have hitherto prevailed among all orders and denominations of men among us. <b>To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people</b>; <b>each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights</b>, <b>privileges</b>, <b>and protection</b>. As a nation we have made peace and war: as a nation we have vanquished our common enemies: as a nation we have formed alliances, and made treaties, and entered into various compacts and conventions with foreign States.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Federalist_No._4_(1787)"><span id="Federalist_No._4_.281787.29"></span>Federalist No. 4 (1787)</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Federalist No. 4 (1787)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that <b>nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it</b>; nay, absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but <b>for the purposes and objects merely personal, such as thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctified by justice or the voice and interests of his people.</b> <ul><li><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._4" class="extiw" title="w:Federalist No. 4">Federalist No. 4</a></i> (7 November 1787) <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Federalist/4">Full text from Wikisource</a>.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Federalist_No._5_(1787)"><span id="Federalist_No._5_.281787.29"></span>Federalist No. 5 (1787)</h5><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Federalist No. 5 (1787)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd><small><b>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_No._5" class="extiw" title="w:Federalist No. 5">Federalist No. 5</a>" (10 November 1787), <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Federalist_Papers" class="extiw" title="w:The Federalist Papers">The Federalist Papers</a></i>.</b></small></dd></dl> <ul><li>Distrust naturally creates distrust, and by nothing is good-will and kind conduct more speedily changed than by invidious jealousies and uncandid imputations, whether expressed or implied.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1790s">1790s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1790s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>Every man of every color and description has a natural right to freedom</b>. <ul><li>As quoted in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CzENUusPxfoC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=%22Every+man+of+every+color+and+description+has+a+natural+right+to+freedom.%22&source=bl&ots=1tQG5sYvb1&sig=ACfU3U3zCa4gICREE91BRNxn1XPY8Jg2Vw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjW5OWcttPjAhXLqFkKHTRBB3oQ6AEwAnoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Every%20man%20of%20every%20color%20and%20description%20has%20a%20natural%20right%20to%20freedom.%22&f=false"><i>George Clinton: Yeoman Politician of the New Republic</i></a>, by John P. Kaminski, p. 205</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>It is presumed, that juries are the best judges of facts; it is, on the other hand, presumed that courts are the best judges of law. But still both objects are within your power of decision ... You have a right to take it upon yourselves to judge of both, and to determine the law as well as the fact in controversy. <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.friesian.com/jury.htm"><i>Georgia vs. Brailsford</i></a> (1794)</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1810s">1810s</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1810s"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Letter_to_John_Murray_(1816)"><span id="Letter_to_John_Murray_.281816.29"></span>Letter to John Murray (1816)</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Letter to John Murray (1816)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><b>It certainly is very desirable that a pacific disposition should prevail among all nations.</b> The most effectual way of producing it, is <b>by extending the prevalence and influence of the gospel</b>.<b> Real Christians will abstain from violating the rights of others, and therefore will not provoke war.</b> <br /> Almost all nations have peace or war at the will and pleasure of rulers whom they do not elect, and who are not always wise or virtuous. Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and <b>it is the duty</b>, <b>as well as the privilege and interest</b>, <b>of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers</b>. <ul><li>Letter to John Murray (12 October 1816) as published in <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=V50EAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA376&dq=%22Providence+has+given+to+our+people+the+choice+of+their+rulers%22&ei=ePMHR5LDMZXC7AKArImDAg&hl=en"><i>The Life of John Jay</i> (1833) by William Jay, Vol. 2, p. 376</a></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Quotes_about_Jay">Quotes about Jay</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Quotes about Jay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>With the sure sagacity of a leader of men, Washington at once selected, for the highest and most responsible stations, the three chief Americans who represented the three forces in the nation which alone could command success in the institution of the government. <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hamilton" title="Alexander Hamilton">Hamilton</a> was the head, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Jefferson</a> was the heart, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jay" class="extiw" title="w:John Jay">John Jay</a> was the conscience. Washington's just and serene ascendancy was the lambent flame in which these beneficent powers were fused, and nothing less than that ascendancy could have ridden the whirlwind and directed the storm that burst around him. <ul><li><a href="/wiki/George_William_Curtis" title="George William Curtis">George William Curtis</a>, as quoted in <i>Manual Of Patriotism: For Use in the Public Schools of the State of New York</i> (1900) By Charles Rufus SkinnerTake, p. 261.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>By this constitution [NY State 1777] the right of suffrage was, in several instances, restricted to freeholders; it being a favourite maxim with Mr. Jay, that those who own the country ought to govern it. <ul><li>Son William Jay in <i>The Life of John Jay</i> (1833), volume I, chapter III.</li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Jay&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="noprint" style="clear: right; 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