The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison, inaugural address (March 4, 1841); Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington, 1789, to John F. Kennedy, 1961 (1961), p. 72. House Doc. 87–218.
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I regard the book from which you drew that quote to be a bit spooky; it qas as if they knew that Kennedy’s inaugural addresses would not straddle volumes.