Excerpt from The Great Experiment Finally we have the conscious traitor and corrupt agitator who may be dismissed with the couplet: No thief e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the Law. An honest discussion of our government and its fundamental laws is not only legitimate but highly desirable. The right and ultimate power to change our form of government rest with the people, and those who possess that power should at least know and understand its fundamental principles. To quote from the Declaration of Independence: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.