states which had evolved slowly painfully and plan leslie from preceding things these americans for history's first time planned and made a nation and then a new york city on a full thirty seven thousand nine hundred nine they named a leader to complete the structure on the foundation of that new nation's fundamental law i do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and will to the best of my ability there's protect and defend the constitution of the united states gentlemen before we get to business we have the pleasure perhaps mixed with sadness of saying hail and farewell to one who deserves all the affection and respect that this country with that description conveyed only one man dr benjamin franklin tomorrow i leave for philadelphia where in my daughter's house i shall spend such time as a lot of me beyond my present eighty two years those of them have done for years dr frank and i have watched that constitution growing tree from first to the sprout planted by samuel adams and his correspondence committee and then the united action of the association of seventeen seventy f in the history of this nation there is that there is an honorable page for that association that was the trunk and those articles would have fronts first branches and then the branches lifted up and sprayed into  constitution through deliberate design and they will most likely next step suspicion and accusation will follow close upon suspicion to prove some cause to be connected in some  proceeded on the theory that the means justified the true measure of any action is the sentiment from which it springs the quality of means determines the ethics  if the government we organize under the people's constitution survives the next twenty years may go on forever my friend it will good bye and good luck to the first government was formed john j became the first chief justice and by general accord madison became leader of the house then a cabinet of secretaries rather than ministers was people know that rights can be enforced mr de there is a widespread conviction that there should be a statement of such rights to serve as a sure basis for court decisions when determining interacting laws but conviction stems from the english revolution of sixteen eighty eight and their beloved right of the following year its roots are in our inheritance of british tradition and during the original conventions ratification i promised that by quick amendment in the constitution our presumptive rights would become actual now so it is whispered that i have done nothing to reading my promise never did a people so thoroughly discussed contemplated legislation as was this document discussed this is our fundamental all judgment or pandering to politics does not change it mr randolph with various members of the house i have studied upward of seventy proposed amendments to our constitution submitted by the various states and from the sevent we have twenty which merit prompt attention it is significant that none of the use contemplates changing of a single vital article and that is good news i had a discussing our constitution call you the father of varian congress is commanded to make laws necessary to carry into execution the great powers granted it and all other powers vested in government by the document you foster that great conference this is no time for consideration of amendments from the very states which ratified a document commanding us to do these things in the president's stupendous task of organization requires the full support of the senate and house leaving don't time now for consideration of amendments which by the great majority are considered in consequential mr president a respectable minority will consider themselves folly dealt with their promises made in other states similar to those i made in virginia are ignored radical at any absolute money nothing will so the strike confidence and free government at the district god after the advent of campaign pledges i recommended by this congress for ratification by the states you may count on me mr madison and only in the senate and on us to our honest response to the minority demand will encourage among the people who founded this government a real bond of mutual goodwill as binding as the more formal ties  everyone come to acknowledge james madison and the affairs of the united states perhaps as the most direct knowledge of any high measure of devotion but what sort of devotion is that which with the smirk on her name promises have been made which must be kept before this mr president i have the honor to present for your appraisal twelve amendments to our constitution recommended  mr president i have been asked to read to you a resolution of the congress unanimously adopted in joint session in acknowledgment of the signal favors of the almighty in permitting our people to establish peace a new government be it resolved that the president of the united states be requested to recommend a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to  observed by all the people of the nation it is altogether this thing done on september twenty ninth seventeen eighty nine the first congress a press and the right of people assembly and petition the second the right of states to maintain militia and the people to keep and bear arms for their security the third prohibit quartering of troops upon citizens either during peace or war the fourth guarantees the people's right to be secure in their persons preventing arbitrary searches and seizures th protect life liberty and property from arbitrary acts and formulate the legal procedure against those accused of serious crime designating indictment only by grand jury the s article by popular court declared the nation's bill of rights that bill of rights refutes the life of one friendly critics o j here that our constitution required quick revision there has been no revision these amendments supplement the constitution they do not change because and as the people of all the states did do it day and then the stablished the constitution legally and politically it may be said that the united states is rather than the united states a nation well a free government has been made whole and if you can keep itself