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- Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. To be more safe, [nations] at length become willing to run the risk…
- The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means of providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements which owe their origin…
- What plan for the regulation of the militia may be pursued by the national government is impossible to be foreseen...The project of disciplining all the…
- These powers ought to exist without limitation, because it is impossible to foresee or to define the extent and variety of national exigencies, and the…
- There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defense and protection of the community in any matter essential to…
- Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies…
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the…
- The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a…
- The administration of private justice between the citizens of the same state, the supervision of agriculture and of other concerns of a similar nature, all…
- 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…
- It is a well-known fact that in countries in which the national debt is properly funded, and an object of established confidence, it answers most…
- The prosperity of commerce is now perceived and acknowledged by all enlightened statesmen to be the most useful as well as the most productive source…
- The tendency of a national bank is to increase public and private credit. The former gives power to the state, for the protection of its…
- Passive commerce . . . should thus . . . [compel us] to content ourselves with the first price of our commodities, and to see…
- A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any…
- The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to…
- I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the…
- As the duties of superintending the national defense and of securing the public peace against foreign or domestic violence involve a provision for casualties and…
- That there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied.
- [T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of…
- The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.…
- To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.
- Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions.…
- It may safely be received as an axiom in our political system, that the state governments will in all possible contingencies afford complete security against…
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