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4 4 Resolved. That the independent right of each State to determine who shall be all written to political franchises and citizenships within its own limits, is clear and indisputable, and is to be exercised without question by any other State, and that persons admitted to the rights of citizenship by any State, are, by the plain letter of the constitution of the United States, "entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States."

5 Resolved. That whatever may be the course of political events elsewhere, the people of Maine are determined to abide by, and make effective within, the limits of their own Sovereign jurisdiction, the principles of the [stricken parenthetical] declaration of American Independence or the Constitution of the U States ^ and the Constitution of this State, which, ordained "to establish justice" and "secure the blessings of liberty", declares that "all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain mutual, inherent and unalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and definding life and liberty, acquiring, possessing and protecting property, + of pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness." *