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Representatives Quotes by Alexander Hamilton
- Give me the steady, uniform, unshaken security of constitutional freedom. Give me the right to be tried by a jury of my own neighbors, and…
- If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense…
- 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…
- Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But…
- [E]very act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary…
- Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
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