Tell them this Convention shall never rise until the Constitution is adopted! FREEDOM Marvelous Boy, Do you speak, now. HAMILTON (_Swinging to the people._) Here, my countrymen, let us make a firm stand for our safety, our tranquillity, our dignity, our reputation. It belongs to us to vindicate the honor of the human race. Union will enable us to do it.... The necessity of a constitution is imminent. A nation without a national government is an awful spectacle. Why, then, do you hesitate? The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people. The stream of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure original fountain of all legitimate authority. Let the thirteen states, bound together in an indissoluble union, concur in erecting one great American system, consecrated to the steady administration of the laws, dedicated to the protection of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of ambition, of faction, of anarchy, able to dictate the terms of connection between the old world and the new! [_Gradually as he spoke, the groups have merged, slowly and diffidently, but surely. At the end they stand all together about his feet, looking up into his face. And the music crashes superbly out and light blazes upon the Spokesmen. And, as they begin to speak, the crowd joins hands and lifts linked arms high, as if to take an oath._] THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND FOUR VOICES We, the people of the United States.... THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND EIGHT VOICES In order to form a more perfect union... THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWELVE VOICES Establish justice... THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND SIXTEEN VOICES Ensure domestic tranquillity... THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY VOICES Provide for the common defense... THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY-FOUR VOICES Promote the general welfare... THE FIRST SPOKESMAN AND TWENTY-EIGHT VOICES And secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity... THE SECOND SPOKESMAN AND FULL CHOIR Do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. [_The triumphant music again and a shout of joy from all the people and Freedom lifts grateful hands to heaven._] FOUR VOICES OF THE CHOIR (_Intoning upon a high note._) No law respecting an established religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievance. THE FULL CHOIR (_Sotto voce upon a higher note._) Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable! FREEDOM We here highly resolve that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.