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1698. CONSTITUTION (The Federal), Preservation of.—[further continued].

To preserve the republican
forms and principles of our Constitution,
and cleave to the salutary distribution of
powers which that has established, * * * are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If
driven from either we shall be in danger of
foundering.—
To William Johnson. Washington ed. vii, 298. Ford ed., x, 232.
(M. 1823)