Special Message
11/08/1792
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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...
I have finally determined to accept the commission of Commander in Chief of the armies of the United States.
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.