Selections From the Letters And Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
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Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aUens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS 87 you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you. This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of... amending it, or their revolution- ary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitu- tion amended. While I make no recommendation of amendments, I fully recognize the rightful authority of the people over the whole subject, to be exercised in either of the modes prescribed in the instrument it- self; and I should, under existing circumstances, favor rather than oppose a fair opportunity being afforded the people to act upon it.
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