If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This [a state militia system] appears to me the only substitute that can be devised for a standing army, and the best… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the exercise of power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
When men, engaged in unjustifiable pursuits, are aware that obstructions may come from a quarter which bare apprehension of opposition from doing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The Courts must declare the sense of the law; and if they should be disposed to exercise will instead of judgement; the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[If you understood the natural rights of mankind,] [y]ou would be convinced that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
I have carefully examined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a juror upon its authenticity I… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is at this present juncture, a certain fermentation of mind, a certain activity of speculation and enterprise which if properly directed… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic?… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the end be clearly comprehended within any of the specified powers, and if the measure have an obvious relation to that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A struggle for liberty is in itself respectable and glorious. . . . When conducted with magnanimity, justice and humanity, it ought… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Good constitutions are formed upon a comparison of the liberty of the individual with the strength of government: If the tone of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Happy will it be for ourselves, and most honorable for human nature, if we have wisdom and virtue enough to set so… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
...that standing army can never be formidable (threatening) to the liberties of the people, while there is a large body of citizens,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing; it will be powerfull cement of our… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. And I am much mistaken, if experience has not… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people,… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Wherever indeed a right of property is infringed for the general good, if the nature of the case admits of compensation, it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If government is in the hands of the few, they will tyrannize the many; if in the hands of the many, they… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“I am apprehensive, Sir, that in the warmth of my feelings, I may have uttered expressions, which were too vehement. If such has been… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[W]ar is a question, under our constitution, not of Executive, but of Legislative cognizance. It belongs to Congress to say whether the Nation shall… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Though a wide ocean separates the United States from Europe, yet there are various considerations that warn us against an excess of confidence or… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is an unquestionable truth, that the body of the people in every country desire sincerely its prosperity. But it is equally unquestionable that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There are still to be found visionary or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the states, though… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be subordinate to the laws, and another [for the Executive] to be dependent on the legislative body. The first… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind.… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Money is, with propriety, considered as the vital principle of the body politic; as that which sustains its life and motion, and enables it… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
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