~ I see,... and with the deepest affliction, the rapid strides with which the federal branch of our government is advancing towards the usurpation of all the rights reserved to the States, and the consolidation in itself of all powers, foreign and domestic; and that, too, by constructions which, if legitimate, leave no limits to their power... It is but too evident that the three ruling branches of the Federal government are in combination to strip their colleagues, the State authorities, of the powers reserved by them, and to exercise themselves all functions foreign and domestic ~  ~ An elective despotism was not the government we fought for, but one which should not only be founded on true free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among general bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others ~ ~ The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers ~ ~ Every State has a natural right in cases not within the compact casus non faederis to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them ~ ~ The purpose of a written constitution is to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights. ~ ~ The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society ~ ~ It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape. ~ ~ It is more dangerous that even a guilty
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forms of law than that he should escape. ~ ~ How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. ~ ~ Of all exercises walking is the best. ~ ~ Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites. ~ ~ Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ~ ~ I, however, place economy among the first and most important republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. ~ ~ I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and public debt as the greatest of dangers ... We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the. ~ ~ If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest ~ Most Popular Topics:
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