"
If there be a principle that
ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is, that every nation
has a right to abolish an old government and establish a new one. This
principle is not only recorded in every public archive, written in every American
heart, and sealed with the blood of a host of American martyrs; but is the only
lawful tenure by which the United States hold their existence as a
nation."
--James
Madison, Helevidius, No. 3, 1793
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