The Destruction of an Existing Constitution... - Granite Grok

The Destruction of an Existing Constitution…

Orestes Brownson

Providence gives to each nation, not miraculously,… the political constitution best fitted to its genius, its wants, and its destiny, and it is a crime and a sin to attempt to subvert it whether from without or from within.  Abuses may be reformed, but the revolutionizing of a government, or the destruction of an existing constitution of a nation even for the purpose of introducing a new and better one, has, in no instance on record, failed to make matters worse, and ultimately to cause the nation’s death.

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