ct adherence to the letter and spirit of the constitution as it was designed by those who framed it. looking back to it as a sacred instrument carefully and not easily framed； remembering that it was throughout a work of concession and compromise； viewing it as limited to national objects； regarding it as leaving to the people and the states all power not explicitly parted with， i shall endeavor to preserve， protect， and defend it by anxiously referring to its provision for direction in every action. to matters of domestic concernment which it has intrusted to the federal government and to such as relate to our intercourse with foreign nations i shall zealously devote myself； beyond those limits i shall never pass.
to enter on this occasion into a further or more minute exposition of my views on the various questions of domestic policy would be as obtrusive as it is probably unexpected. before the suffrages of my countrymen were conferred upon me i submitted to them， with great precision， my opinions on all the most prominent of these subjects. those opinions i shall endeavor to carry out with my utmost ability.
our course of foreign policy has been so uniform and intelligible as to constitute a rule of executive conduct which leaves little to my discretion， unless， indeed， i were willing to run counter to the lights of experience and the known opinions of my constituents. we sedulously cultivate the friendship of all nations as the conditions most compati
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