Assertion: constitution's spirit | /r/HasProperty | indispensable
Facets:
value: to the union of states
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to political institutions
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: to physical condition
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: It was, according to Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story (writing in 1833), a "matter of compromise and concession, confessedly unequal in its operation, but a necessary sacrifice to that spirit of conciliation, which was indispensable to the union of states having a great diversity of interests, and physical condition, and political institutions".