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First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition. There Interest of the Man Must Be Connected With the Constitutional Rights of the Place
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
Thought For the Day: America Is the Only Successful Multiracial Constitutional Republic In History
“Pause to reflect that America is the only successful multiracial constitutional republic in history. To survive in an increasingly dysfunctional and hostile world abroad, the unique idea of the United States requires concord. But national cohesion is only possible through … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Benjamin Franklin, Common Culture, Concord, Constitutional, Dysfunctional and Hostile, Hang Together, History, Multiracial, National Cohesion, Reflect, Republic, Separate, Survive, Thought For the Day, Tribal Interests, Victor Davis Hanson
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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But The People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
First Principles: Ambition Must Be Made To Counteract Ambition
“Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuses of Government, Ambition, Constitutional, Control, Counteract, Devices, First Principles, Human Nature, Interest, James Madison, Mankind, Reflection
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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: It Is the Nature of the Federal Government’s Constraints and Limitations That Makes Our Government Just
“Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will … Continue reading
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