washington admits the fraternity is an experiment but is worth a fair and full experm. we are authorized to distrust the pay troetism of the parochial nay sayers. washington doesn't coin the word un-american, he's very much fostering public suspicion. as lincoln would later say, having learned it from washington, in this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. with public sentiment nothing can fail. without it, nothing can succeed. he who modes it goes deeper than who he enacts it. he makes it possible or impossible to be executed. in the fair weal address, he is engaged in the task, shaping an endurining sentiment to support and just as importantly restrict the efforts of future american statesmen. from union, it is but a short step to the constitution. washington's main point in the section is that true liberty entails duties upon citizens. the basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and alter their constitutions of government. but the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the who