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  • This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.

    George Washington (1809). “The Patriot's Monitor: Or, Speeches and Addresses of the Late George Washington”, p.124
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