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--- documents:quotes:quotes [2021/05/03 23:07] – [Article V - Founders, Framers, and Presidents quotes] Oliver Wolcott
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+**Article V Day quote:** \\
+If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
+- George Washington
+{{:documents:quotes:g_washington-article_v_day.png?direct&400|George Washington, Article V Day Meme}}
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 //**--Abraham Lincoln **//(from his first inaugural address - March 4, 1861)
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+“All that is granted us by the 5th article is that, whenever we shall think it necessary, we may propose amendments to the Constitution; not that we may propose to repeal the old and substitute a new one.”
+//** Roger Sherman Aug 13, 1789 **// \\
+https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llac&fileName=001%2Fllac001.db&recNum=372
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