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363 The standing laws now in force in this State, require at present, it is believed, little or no alteration. In their operation, they continue in general to produce the designed effects, and are in accordance with the public sentiment and the wants of the community. It would be unsafe, therefore, without urgent reasons, and merely from the often delusive hope of improving our condition by an untried experiment, to attempt any sudden and material alteration in the leading principles of these laws and usages, which were transmitted to us by our fathers, under which they prospered and were happy, and which now being well known and understood, constitute the main pillars in the structure of our civil liberties.