Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Our present political position has been achieved in a manner unprecedented in the history of nations. It illustrates the American idea that governments rest on the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish them at will whenever they become destructive of the ends for which they were established." in the context of "Jefferson Davis, inaugural address as president of the Confederate States of America, Montgomery, Alabama (February 18, 1861); in Dunbar Rowland, ed., Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, His Letters, Papers and Speeches (1923), vol. 5, p. 50." to mean that wisdom is timeless.