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Changing the Constitution
The Washington Family, c. 1790–1796.
‘‘If, in the opinion of the people,’’ said President Washington in his famous Farewell
Address, ‘‘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 th