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...maxims of true liberty. The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make arid to alter their constitutions of government ; but the...every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible...

...and wholesome plans, digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests. all. The very idoa of the power and the right of the people to establish...every individual to obey the established government. Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is...

...authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly binding upon all. The very idea of the right and power of the people to establish Government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey it the established Government. All irregular obstructions therefore to the execution of the laws —...

...measures." Conceding that the people have a right to change the government, Washington cautioned that "the constitution which at any time exists till changed...every individual to obey the established government." 7 Thus, by conceptual legerdemain, Washington transformed the liberating notion of popular sovereignty...

...union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon...every individual to obey the established government. All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible...

...constitutions of government." He then warned that "the constitution which at anytime exists, until changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole...the duty of every individual to obey the established government."86 Here, Washington highlighted a fear that by the end of the 18th century many among the...

...present Constitution. Thus the President closes up the revolutionary alternative in his idea of a nation: "The very idea of the power and the right of the people...the duty of every individual to obey the established government."7' The belated president has little difficulty translating Washington's criticism of factions....

...or ability to compel obedience as much as its basis in just principles of government. Indeed, it was the "very idea of the power and the right of the People to establish Government," Washington wrote, that "presupposes the duty of every Individual to obey the established Government."50...