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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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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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I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those…
— James Madison
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It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants…
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The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is…
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute…
— Thomas Jefferson
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That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty…
— Edmund Burke
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We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look…
— James Madison
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This doctrine ['that the condition of man cannot be ameliorated, that what has been must ever be, and that to secure ourselves…
— Thomas Jefferson
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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in…
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