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First Principles: The Constitution Constrains the Government Not the People
The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry
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First Principles: Beware of the Good Intentions of Lust For Power
Good intention will always be pleaded for every assumption of power . . . . It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men … Continue reading
First Principles: The Sanctity of Life Begins In the Womb
“With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Federal Government Must Not Interfere With Religion
“I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or … Continue reading
First Principles: Democracy Leads To Tyranny
“It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed … Continue reading
First Principles: Disarming A People Is the Best Way to Enslave Them
“To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” – George Mason Some might see the sense of the above quote but still wonder who George Mason is. Hs name seems at times to be … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Constitution Must Be Changed By Amendment Only
“[T]he present Constitution is the standard to which we are to cling. Under its banners, bona fide must we combat our political foes — rejecting all changes but through the channel itself provides for amendments.” –Alexander Hamilton This quote may … Continue reading
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First Principles: Congress Should Stick To Its Enumerated Powers
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one, possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to particular exceptions.”– James Madison … Continue reading
First Principles: Sustaining Governance Depends On A Broad Base of Support
“The pyramid of government, and a republican government may well receive that beautiful and solid form, should be raised to a dignified altitude: but its foundations must, of consequence, be broad, and strong, and deep.” – James Wilson (1804) … Continue reading
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First Principles: Constitutional Law Is A Noble Inheritance
“If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the union, then they will have accomplished all that their … Continue reading →