...only that you steadily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, bat aiso that you resist with care [the]! spirit of innovation upon its principles however specious the pretexts. — One method of assanlt may bo to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations...

...present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you speedily discountenance irregular opposition to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of 17 David Herbert Donald, Lincoln (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), p. 83. 18 Of, I, pp. 110-111...

...security and happiness of America presupposes statesmen who are willing to defend the Constitution and "resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles. however specious the pretexts.""0 Why then. we must ask again. the language from President Bush and neoconservatives today...