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- A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
- 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…
- If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
- It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,…
- 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 definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.
- The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public, that ought to…
- The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the…
- THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a proselyte to the…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.
- 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,…
- A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for…
- It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their…
- I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.
- In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.
- The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
- 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…
- [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…
- A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- 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…
- Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.
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