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• It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
• [I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
• One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
• The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
• Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
• Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
• Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
• Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
• [The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
• So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
• The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
• In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…

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