...Hamilton explained in his draft of Washington's farewell address, The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of Government. But the constitution for the time, and until changed by an explicit and...
...constitution itself. The first president carefully explained that although "the basis of our political System is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government," the constitution "which at any time exists" was "sacredly obligatory...
The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. 
