That, my friends, is what I honestly believe to have been the clear and underlying purpose of the patriots who wrote a federal constitution to create a national government with national power, intended as they said, "to form a more perfect union. . . for ourselves and our posterity.
Roosevelt emphasizes the foundational purpose of the U.S. Constitution in creating a strong national government for future generations.
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