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It yet remains a problem to be solved in human affairs, whether any free government can be permanent, where the public worship…
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[I]t is impossible for those, who believe in the truth of Christianity, as a divine revelation, to doubt, that it is the…
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One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
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Temporary delusions, prejudices, excitements, and objects have irresistible influence in mere questions of policy. And the policy of one age may ill…
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Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.
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Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their…
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Constitutions are not designed for metaphysical or logical subtleties, for niceties of expression, for critical propriety, for elaborate shades of meaning, or…
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[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress;…
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So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state…
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The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect…
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In the next place, the state governments are, by the very theory of the constitution, essential constituent parts of the general government.…
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Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man…
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Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our…
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by…
— Joseph Story
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We must all beware the very real and understandable human tendency to ignore or subvert facts, and findings of science, that discomfort…
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The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by…
— Thomas Jefferson
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On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with…
— James Madison
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At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the…
— James Madison
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Expectations of goals and rewards (such as Enlightenment) are recognized for what they are: last-ditch attempts by the ghostly self to subvert…
— Stephen Batchelor
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Schemes to subvert the liberties of a great community require time to mature them for execution.
— Alexander Hamilton
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The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to…
— Dan B. Allender
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We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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What we need is a tough new kind of feminism with no illusions. Women do not change institutions simply by assimilating into…
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