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Act Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind…
- The instrument by which it [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must…
- The honor of a nation is its life. Deliberately to abandon it is to commit an act of political suicide.
- The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the…
- But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of…
- There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the commission under which it is…
- [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
- Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
- A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by judges, as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as…
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