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Laloofah (laloofah@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jul-2024 09:19:59 JST Laloofah

Two germane #quotes from #GeorgeWashington’s Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 19 Sep 1796 (he warned us)…
"However [political parties] may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time & things to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, & unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people & to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
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1. Screenshot from https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/past-projects/quotes/ "It is important ... that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional Spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another." FAREWELL ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES | MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1796 #government EDITORIAL NOTES On September 19, 1796, Washington informed the nation that he would not elect to serve a third term as president. In this “Farewell Address,” he stressed issues of constitutional practice, including the importance of the separate branches of government as representations of public opinion.
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