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Quotation from Second Reply to Hayne by Daniel Webster
“It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”
Second Reply to Hayne, Constitutional argument, on the origin of the government (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879))
Webster answers his own question, whose agent the federal government is.
Citation: "It is, Sir, the people's Constitution, the people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people." — Daniel Webster, Second Reply to Hayne, Constitutional argument, on the origin of the government (The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster, ed. Whipple (1879)). (id webster-second-reply-to-hayne-q4)
Virtues: Justice
Portrait: Webster's Reply to Hayne, by Healy (cropped), George Peter Alexander Healy, Public domain.
