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- The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution.
- You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United States." This was…
- 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]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an…
- In all great changes of established governments, forms ought to give way to substance
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
- Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.
- I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than…
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