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Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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A letter critiques Mr. Bullock's Senate candidacy as inconsistent with his prior constitutional claim to the lieutenant governorship during Mr. Madison's term, alleging that Secretary Pope and state officials manipulate principles to suit political interests, potentially avoiding another Fayette senator.
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Is it not strange that Mr. Bullock should ask to be elected to the Senate, when, it is said, he contended last winter, that he was constitutionally lieutenant governor, for the term of Mr. Madison's election, and by the same rule by which he makes Mr. Slaughter governor for that period ? The rule works to that result; but perhaps it did not then suit Mr. Pope to make Mr. Bullock lieutenant governor, for fear of the election of another Senator from Fayette. Thus it is, that these state government men, at the will of Secretary Pope, make principle yield to their views. What is constitutional at one time is not so at another, just as it happens to suit them.
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mr. bullock's senate candidacy is inconsistent with his earlier constitutional claim to lieutenant governorship during mr. madison's term, as per the same rule making mr. slaughter governor; this flexibility in constitutional interpretation suits secretary pope's political aims, such as avoiding another fayette senator.
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