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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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There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be…
— James Madison
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If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it…
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I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny. For it is but usurpation in him to save,…
— Cato the Younger
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Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to…
— Henry James Sumner Maine
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A constitution is not the act of a government, but of a people constituting a government; and government without a constitution is…
— Thomas Paine
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I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will…
— Antonin Artaud
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What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution…
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It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising…
— James Monroe
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That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpation of power by…
— Joseph Story
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The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right…
— Andrew Jackson
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