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And yet, with but few amendments, our great organic law as fully meets the requirements of a self-governing people to-day as when it came from the hands of its framers.
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Adlai Stevenson
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Stevenson asserts the enduring relevance of the Constitution for contemporary governance.
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To this man, more than to any other, are we indebted for the supreme fact that ninety millions of people are at this hour, in the loftiest sense of the expression, fellow-citizens of a common country.
My countrymen, the little settlement planted just three centuries ago near the spot upon which we have to-day assembled has under divine guidance grown into a mighty nation.
In the rush of events, party antagonisms, in the main, soon fade from remembrance.
The spirit of the mob is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.