A jealous care of the right of election by the people, — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided, I deem [one of the] essential principles of our government and, consequently, [one] which ought to shape its administration. —

TITLE: First Inaugural Address.
EDITION: Washington ed. viii, 4.
EDITION: Ford ed., viii, 4.
PLACE: [none given]
DATE: 1801