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7675. ROTATION IN OFFICE, Restoration of.—

The second amendment [to the new
Federal Constitution], which appears to me to
be essential, is the restoring the principle of
necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate
and Presidency, but most of all to the last.—
To E. Carrington. Washington ed. ii, 404. Ford ed., v, 20.
(P. 1788)