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- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced…
- The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive…
- The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts…
- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
- The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty in its meaning,…
- It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
- If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a republic to be,…
- The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governour of the Universe:…
- The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also,…
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be…
- Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at…
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