All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and Associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the Constituted authorities are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to Organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force-to put in the place of the delegated Nation, the will of the party; often a small but artful and enterprizing minority of the Community; and according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public Administration the Mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the Organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common councils and modefied by mutal interests. However combinations or Associations of the above description may now & then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, & to usurp for themselves the reins of Government; destroying afterwords the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
-George Washington in his Farewell Address of 1796
Senator Tom Delay's Mugshot; which
was taken after he was indicted on
charges of money laundering.
was taken after he was indicted on
charges of money laundering.
No comments:
Post a Comment