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- The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
- Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any…
- The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
- [N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the Civil authority with…
- No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of…
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which…
- On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in…
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
- Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a new harvest to…
- Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
- It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a…
- Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
- No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and the period within…
- If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
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