The Government of the People (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Government of the People That the government of the United States is "a government of the people, by the people, and for the people," is a very frequent announcement, and is always received with applause. It must be in the interest of the people to ascertain whether the fact thus announced be so or ¬ and should it appear that the sovereignty of the people is more in name, than in fact, and that the sovereignty rightfully belongs to the people, then to ascertain, if possible, why the sovereignty is not as efficacious of good for the people as might be reasonably expected. The points then to be considered are simply three: 1. Are the people entitled to govern? 2. Do they govern? 3. If not, why not? We might have been content with the ready acceptance which the announcement of the government of the people has ever met with in this country, and furthermore, with the apparently conclusive authority of the Preamble to that Constitution which, with the laws enacted by Congress under it, forms the supreme law of this Republic. That Preamble should be well understood by the people, and it is as follows: We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. This Preamble should be well studied by all who desire to become acquainted with the nature of the government of the United States, as it exhibits in a few lines not merely the special purposes of that government, but also the avowed objects of all government of every form. The first object proposed in the Preamble is the formation of "a more perfect union; and fittingly, because the splendid justice on which that union was based would be, if faithfully adhered to, the best guarantee of the five other objects contemplated, namely: justice generally, domestic tranquility, security from invasion, the general welfare, and an enduring liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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