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Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three… — James Madison
It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust. — Alexander Hamilton
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… — Alexander Hamilton
If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it… — Alexander Hamilton
My ardent desire is, and my aim has been . . . to comply strictly with all our engagements foreign and domestic; but to keep… — George Washington
I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they are contended for, are not only… — Alexander Hamilton
In America, no other distinction between man and man had ever been known but that of persons in office exercising powers by authority of the… — Thomas Jefferson
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the… — Octavio Paz
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand… — Antonin Artaud
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to… — Eleanor Roosevelt
The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be… — Oliver Ellsworth
It would reduce the whole instrument to a single phrase, that of instituting a Congress with power to do whatever would be for the good… — Thomas Jefferson
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… — Alexander Hamilton
The construction applied . . . to those parts of the Constitution of the United States which delegate Congress a power . . . ought… — Thomas Jefferson
The constitution of the United States is to receive a reasonable interpretation of its language, and its powers, keeping in view the objects and purposes,… — Joseph Story
Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to… — H. L. Mencken
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,… — James Madison
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… — James Madison
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… — James Madison

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