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Legislature Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the people can never…
- When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government…
- Nothing can be more evident, than that an exclusive power of regulating elections for the National Government, in the hands of the State Legislatures, would…
- The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience…
- If it be said that the legislative body are themselves the constitutional judges of their own powers, and that the construction they put upon them…
- The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices…
- That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is well…
- The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same…
- In this distribution of powers the wisdom of our constitution is manifested. It is the province and duty of the Executive to preserve to the…
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