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First Principles: A Breakdown In the People’s Manners and Spirit Leads To the Destruction of Its Laws and Constitution
“It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)
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Tagged Canker, Constitution, Degeneracy, First Principles, Law, manners, Preserve, Republic, Spirit, The People, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Our Leaders Should Possess Distinguished Character
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775)
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Tagged Essential, Establishment of Manners, First Principles, Persons, Power, Samuel Adams, State, Trust, Unexceptionable Character
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First Principles: The Judiciary Branch Does Not Decide Constitutionality of Laws Solely Nor Fully Independent of the Executive and Legislative Branches
“The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make … Continue reading
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Tagged Accumulation, Co-Equal, Constitutional, Despotism, Executive, First Principles, James Madison, Judiciary, Law, Legislative, Sphere, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Heresies In Politics and Religious Are Equally Incurable Through Persecution
“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” – Alexander Hamilton (1787)
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First Principles: The Possibilities of Mischief In the Governance of Man Should Remain Bound By the Constitution
“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” – Thomas Jefferson (1798)
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Tagged Bind, Chains, Confidence, Constitution, First Principles, Man, Mischief, Power, Question, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Where There Is No Law, There Is No Liberty
“Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.” – Benjamin Rush (1788)
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First Principles: Seek Always the Pursuit of Truth; One Lie Leads To Habitual Lies
“There is no vice so mean, so pitiful, so contemptible; and he who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time, till at length it becomes habitual.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Contempt, First Principles, Habitual, Lie, Lies, Pity, Thomas Jefferson, Vice
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First Principles: The God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty
“God who gave us life gave us Liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that … Continue reading
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Tagged Conviction, Destroy, Disjoin, First Principles, Gift of God, Given, God, Hand of Force, Just, Justice, Liberties, Liberty, Life, Nation, Secure, Sleep, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Contemplate On What Is Right and Good
“Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy — … Continue reading
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Tagged Admirable, Book of Philippians, Brethern, First Principles, Just, Lovely, Noble, Pure, True, Virtue
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First Principles: America’s Should Always Be An Attitude of Thankfulness For All of the Blessings God Has Granted
“I do recommend and assign [this Thanksgiving Day] to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or … Continue reading
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