...also based on and upheld the idea of the rule of law. In its creation, the new federal government was "the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced and...upon full investigation and mature deliberation." In its operation, it was "completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting...

...these reasons. As a second effort in reflection upon the nature of human beings, Washington demanded "respect for its authority, compliance with its laws, acquiescence in its measures." The young Lincoln, however, asserts that the Revolution was the legacy of the founders and that its...

...example, in his farewell address, which was written largely by Hamilton, he spoke of the government being "the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy." Beard's complaints about Washington's style remind one of the schoolgirl who didn't like Shakespeare...

...IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY: " This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawci!, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation,...amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and respect." — President Washington's Farewell Address to thr People of the United States. THE LAWBOOK...

...your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced...unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliheration, completely free in its principles, in the distrihution of its powers, uniting security...

...changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all. . . . This Government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced...free in its principles, in the distribution of its power, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment,...

...what the constitutional settlement of 1787-88 meant, only Hamilton could have put it this way: "This government, the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced...amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and support. . . . The very idea of the power and right of the People to establish Government presupposes...

...allegiance to the new government under the Constitution as the culmination of the Revolutionary era. This government, the offspring of our own choice uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation & mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting...

...the threats facing the American Republic in his farewell address. On September 18, 1796 he said "This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced...principles, in the distribution of its powers uniting securely with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim...

...former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. — This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon (nil investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution...