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- The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- ...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and…
- The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
- Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that which the term…
- Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence…
- The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as…
- In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights are the essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the enjoyment of its…
- If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as on the people,…
- It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons,…
- But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
- It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if…
- Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the Legislative as by…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising armies.... A delegation…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of…
- That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain…
- [Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating…
- The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness…
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
- A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be…
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