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It was but the other day that we were shedding our blood to obtain the Constitutions under which we now live, and now we are unsheathing our swords to overturn them.
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Beck highlights Washington's dismay at the irony of fighting for the Constitution only to threaten it.
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But all three spring from one root; all three are carried out by men of like political ideals; all three are destined to promote the cause of ordered liberty throughout the world.
It discusses a great malaise of our age, for which, I fear, no written Constitution, however wise, is an adequate remedy.
Again the words of Washington suggest themselves: "If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disapprove, how can we afterwards defend our work?
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