The quote at the top from Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address is square on point, and was not familiar to me. It echoes, however, Jefferson's very familiar words in the Declaration of Independence. The ultimate solution for a fatally defective government is the "right of revolution."
Most of us, me included, see the situation in the United States as headed in that direction, but not at the end of that road as yet. So the solution in that situation is to work within the constitutional structure to strengthen and protect the Constitution itself.
We need to do two things: 1) Keep Bush in the White House, because no possible alternative President will do any better in nominating judges who will obey the Constitution, and 2) Defeat as many as possible of the Democrats in the Senate who do not want judges who will obey the Constitution from being confirmed to the bench.
Those two steps should buy us another generation, since Supreme Court Justices serve for life, and are usually appointed in their mid- to late-40s (and tend to live long and healthy lives as a rule).
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, now up FR, "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."
So, in other words, let's push this off on our kids.