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- It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the…
- Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the same ease any…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
- American citizens are instrumental in carrying on a traffic in enslaved Africans, equally in violation of the laws of humanity and in defiance of those…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- 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…
- The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to…
- The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive…
- The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more…
- The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
- Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
- For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the…
- When men exercise their reason coolly and freely, on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably fall into different opinions, on some of them. When…
- 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…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least difficult cares of…
- [A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a…
- Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe until a trespass on the Constitution provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that…
- 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…
- Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is held by the…
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