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19. ABUSES, Elections and.—

A jealous
care of the right of election by the people,—
a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are
lopped by the sword of revolution where
peaceable remedies are unprovided, I deem
[one of the] essential principles of our government
and, consequently, [one] which
ought to shape its administration.—
First Inaugural Address. Washington ed. viii, 4. Ford ed., viii, 4.
(1801)