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This Constitution Day, James Wilson’s Insistence That ‘We the People’ Are the Bedrock of ‘Lawful Government’ Resonates Anew

To Lincoln the fundamental principles of the Declaration are an ‘apple of gold’ framed by the Constitution, a ‘picture of silver.’

James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of America.
James Wilson of Pennsylvania, a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of America. New York Public Library via Wikimedia Commons