1From John Adams to Francis Dana, [10 July 1789] (Adams Papers)
...department which must be considered as the Key-Stone of our political fabric,” immediately...
2To John Adams from Thomas Jefferson, 28 October 1813 (Adams Papers)
...a favorable moment, call it up and make it the key–stone of the arch of our government.
3To Benjamin Franklin from John Jay, 30 January 1782 (Franklin Papers)
..., on the other,— thus you continue like the Key Stone of an Arch, pressed by both sides &...
4To George Washington from John Langdon, 21 June 1788 (Washington Papers)
...Constitution, 57 yeas 46 Nays—thereby placeing the Key Stone in the great Arch, this I hope...
5To George Washington from Tobias Lear, 31 July 1788 (Washington Papers)
...the ratification by New Hampshire was the Key-stone of the fabrick, they still...
6To George Washington from Elias Boudinot, 6 April 1789 (Washington Papers)
...I consider it, under Providence, as the key-Stone to our political Fabrick. It is from...
7From George Washington to the United States Senate, 24 September 1789 (Washington Papers)
...—“that department which must be considered as the Key-Stone of our political fabric”—the most...
8From George Washington to John Jay, 5 October 1789 (Washington Papers)
...head of that department which must be considered as the Key-Stone of our political fabric.
9To George Washington from Gouverneur Morris, 24 January 1790 (Washington Papers)
...the executive Authority, which certainly is the Key Stone in the great Arche of Empire I...
10From George Washington to Timothy Pickering, 18 July 1796 (Washington Papers)
...decision was constitutionally essential, was the key stone in the arch, and bound...