If it be asked What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle the sustaining energy of a free government.
--Alexander Hamilton Essay in the American Daily Advertiser 1794
If it be asked What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws -- the first growing out of the last. ... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle the sustaining energy of a free government.
--Alexander Hamilton Essay in the American Daily Advertiser 1794
