Special Message
08/06/1790
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None can serve it with purer intentions than I have done or with a more disinterested zeal.
Believe me, sir, no one can more cordially approve of the wise and prudent measures of your Administration.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different de...