Tag Archives: Constitution

First Principles: Our Republic’s Most Sacred Duty Is An Inviolable Respect for the Constitution and Laws

Posted on March 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws – the first growing out of the last.” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Constitution Was Meant For A Moral People

Posted on February 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams (1798) Times like these require and deserve a reminder of this. The truth. Plain and simple, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Constitution’s Meaning Is A Matter of Plain Meaning

Posted on February 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Virtue Is the Foundation of A Free Constitution

Posted on February 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.” – John Adams (1776) A person seems to keep wanting me to say something more than the founders of our republic said. The choice posed to me is am I … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Be Deliberate In Planning and Implementing Laws

Posted on January 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“In planning, forming, and arranging laws, deliberation is always becoming, and always useful.” – James Wilson

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First Principles: The People Have A Right To Redress Governmental Excess

Posted on December 29, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people … must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Protection of Person and Property Are the Two Proper Aims of Government

Posted on December 24, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“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, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Main Purpose of the Constitution Is To Bind Government From Mischief

Posted on December 19, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“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) If Jefferson had been alive during the Obama Administration in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Useful Law Needs To Be Able To Be Easily Read and Understood

Posted on December 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Way to Modify Government Is Through Amendment

Posted on December 7, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change … Continue reading →

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