...IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY: " This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawci!, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation,...amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and respect." — President Washington's Farewell Address to thr People of the United States. THE LAWBOOK...

...the Declaration's natural law principles. In particular, Washington said this of the Constitution: Respect for its authority, compliance with its laws,...enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions...

...for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliheration, completely free in its principles, in the distrihution of its powers, uniting security...

...for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions...

...for an intimate union and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions...

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...explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. . . . This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...free in its principles, in the distribution of its power, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment,...

...Speaking of the new federal government in which he served twice as its chief magistrate, Washington said: "Respect for its authority, compliance with its Laws,...enjoined by the fundamental maxims of true Liberty. . . . But the Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act...

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...constitutional settlement of 1787-88 meant, only Hamilton could have put it this way: "This government, the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced and unawed,...amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and support. . . . The very idea of the power and right of the People to establish Government presupposes...