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Constitution Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- As riches increase and accumulate in few hands, as luxury prevails in society, virtue will be in a greater degree considered as only a graceful…
- It is a singular capriciousness of the human mind, that after all the admonitions we have had from experience on this head, there should still…
- The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of…
- I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.
- [T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes - rejecting…
- I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree,…
- If it were to be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are not the best,…
- Tyranny has perhaps oftener grown out of the assumptions of power, called for, on pressing exigencies, by a defective constitution, than out of the full…
- After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United…
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential component parts of…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- It is by far the safer course to lay [considerations of the future] altogether aside; and to confine our attention wholly to the nature and…
- A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any…
- If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it…
- The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A…
- I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- [T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is an evident opposition, the laws ought to give…
- [T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of…
- Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from…
- If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a…
- 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…
- Wise politicians will be cautious about fettering the government with restrictions that cannot be observed, because they know that every break of the fundamental laws,…
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