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- The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working under ground to undermine the foundations of our confederated…
- The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always…
- [T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established .…
- The principle of the Constitution is that of a separation of legislative, Executive and Judiciary functions, except in cases specified. If this principle be not…
- My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has…
- The system of banking have[for]ever reprobated. I contemplate it as a blot left in all our Constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their…
- The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise…
- I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,…
- When we come to the moral principles on which the government is to be administered, we come to what is proper for all conditions of…
- But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate…
- The question whether the judges are invested with exclusive authority to decide on the constitutionality of a law has been heretofore a subject of consideration…
- It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
- If some period be not fixed, either by the Constitution or by practice, to the services of the First Magistrate, his office, though nominally elective,…
- No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
- I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of…
- He [Washington] has often declared to me that he considered our new constitution as an experiment on the practicability of republican government, and with what…
- With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of…
- To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.
- The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to…
- The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
- The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that…
- [The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall…
- The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as…
- I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined…
- Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.
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