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Constitutional Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
- The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.
- 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…
- 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…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- 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…
- The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to…
- 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…
- The only constitutional exception to the power of making treaties is, that it shall not change the Constitution.… On natural principles, a treaty, which should…
- The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.
- A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.
- The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors,…
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