Social Compact Quotes by John C. Calhoun

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• Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison
• Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of… — John Quincy Adams
• The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter… — Judith Lewis Herman
• Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the… — Carl Bernstein
• It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals,… — John C. Calhoun
• While most trudge through their days straight-jacketed in the social compact, living for others as much as or more than for themselves,… — John Ridley
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• The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of… — Jon Meacham

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