I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It may be said that the power of preventing bad laws includes that of preventing good ones; and may be used to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith. — 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
Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of… — 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
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
The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Government is frequently and aptly classed under two descriptions-a government of force, and a government of laws; the first is the definition… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a… — 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
“It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
[T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and preemptory spirit of excise laws. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The laws of certain states . . . give an ownership in the service of Negroes as personal property . . .… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The idea of governing at all times by the simple force of law (which we have been told is the only admissible… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The states have authority to interpret the Constitution, enforce it, and protect the people from violations of it by the federal government… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The injury which may possibly be done by defeating a few good laws, will be amply compensated by the advantage of preventing… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — 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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