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Court Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- 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…
- Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
- Jurors should acquit, even against the judge's instruction . . . if exercising their judgment with discretion and honesty they have a clear conviction the…
- Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people,…
- The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished…
- [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…
- The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.…
- 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…
- [T]hough individual oppression may now and then proceed fro the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never be endangered from that…
- 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…
- The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices…
- The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain…
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