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[Our situation] illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

Source: In Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, His Letters, Papers and Speeches, ed. Dunbar Rowland, Vol. 5, p. 50, 1923.
-- Jefferson Davis, (Jun 3 1808-1889), US political leader; He was president of the Confederacy, 1861-65.

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