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dead letter a law or ordinance that is no longer enforced but has not been formally repealed How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Without the SUBSTANCE of this power, the whole Constitution would be a dead letter. The Northwest Company were now in complete occupation of the Columbia River, and its chief tributary streams, holding the posts which he had established, and carrying on a trade throughout the neighboring region, in defiance of the prohibitory law of Congress, which, in effect, was a dead letter beyond the mountains. Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation. |
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