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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…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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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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The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of…
— George Washington
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The error is in the assumption that the General Government is a party to the constitutional compact. The States ... formed the…
— John C. Calhoun
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Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be…
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I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the Constitution for the President and without feeling that I might…
— Andrew Jackson
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[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
— Joseph Story
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In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power…
— James Madison
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I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could…
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