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Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.
A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.