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In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question…

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Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ…

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The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,…

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Armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.

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The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a…

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It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to…

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The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the…

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“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A…

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Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…

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The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…

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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…

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It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country…

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Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

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The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

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They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass…

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The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

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“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded…

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Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;…

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“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government…

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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion…

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