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- If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a right to abolish…
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
- When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is…
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary…
- But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of…
- In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to…
- How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of…
- Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
- The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in…
- The right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon . . . has ever been justly deemed…
- The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those…
- It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to guard one part…
- 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…
- Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of…
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for…
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
- Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
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