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Question at position 8
“Our present position...illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established…and when in the judgment of the sovereign States now comprising the Confederacy it [no longer meets] the purposes for which it was ordained,...”
-- Speech, February, 1861
Who delivered this speech in 1861?
“Our present position...illustrates the American idea that government rests upon the consent of the governed, and that it is the right of the people to alter or abolish a government whenever it becomes destructive of the ends for which it was established…and when in the judgment of the sovereign States now comprising the Confederacy it [no longer meets] the purposes for which it was ordained,...”
-- Speech, February, 1861
Who delivered this speech in 1861?
Ulysses S. Grant
Jefferson Davis
Robert E. Lee
Abraham Lincoln