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First Principles: The Conscience Is Left Free From All Restraint, and Each Is Permitted To Worship His Maker After His Own Judgment
“The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment, which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent – that of total separation of Church and State. No religious establishment by law exists … Continue reading
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First Principles: Justice Is Indiscriminately Due To All, Without Regard To Numbers, Wealth, Or Rank
“Justice is indiscriminately due to all, without regard to numbers, wealth, or rank” – John Jay, in Georgia v. Brailsford (1794)
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First Principles: You Must First Enable the Government To Control the Governed; and In the Next Place, Oblige It To Control Itsel
“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.” – … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Accumulation of All Powers…In the Same Hands…Whether Hereditary, Self-Appointed, Or Elective, May Justly Be Pronounced the very Definition of Tyranny
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison (1788) This … Continue reading
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First Principles: Liberty Cannot Be Preserved Without A General Knowledge Among the People, Who Have A Right…To Knowledge
“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to … Continue reading
First Principles: It Is Emphatically the Province and Duty of the Judicial Department To Say What the Law is
“It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is.” – Chief Justice John Marshall, in Marbury v. Madison (1803)
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First Principals: Whatever May Be Our Wishes, Our Inclination or the Dictates of Our Passions, They Cannot Alter the States of Facts and Evidence
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” – John Adams (1770)
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First Principles: Division Is Naturally Sown Among Mankind
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)
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