NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “For in contrast to our English forbearers, or our British cousins, as some of us affectionately refer to our friends…”

“For in contrast to our English forbearers, or our British cousins, as some of us affectionately refer to our friends across the Atlantic, in this new Nation, in this constitutional republic, we did not choose to recognize one person or one family as sovereign or as sovereigns. Instead, in this Nation we operate from the assumption that, first, power is conferred upon us by a creator, and that in this Nation, the people are sovereign and they in turn confer their power, or political power, if you will, on governmental institutions. Yet, as our friend from Georgia relates the story, what all too often happens is that notion is twisted or turned to where American citizens are suddenly accountable to unelected career Washington bureaucrats, instead, Mr. Speaker, of what was intended, and that is for government to be accountable to the people.”