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Proper Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- 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…
- 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…
- It is of the greatest consequence that the debt should . . . be remoulded into such a shape as will bring the expenditure of…
- If duties are too high, they lessen the consumption; the collection is eluded; and the product to the treasury is not so great as when…
- [W]e must extend the authority of the Union to the persons of the citizens - the only proper objects of government.
- The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the…
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