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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of the Society But the People Themselves

Posted on October 18, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“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 →

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First Principles: The General Government Is Not To Be Charged With the Whole Power of Making and Administering Laws; Its Jurisdiction Is Limited To Certain Enumerated Objects

Posted on October 17, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“[T]he general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Truth Can Stand By Itself. Subject Opinion To Coercion: Whom Will You Make Your Inquisitors

Posted on October 16, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Truth can stand by itself. Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors?” -Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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First Principles: In A Society Under the Forms of Which the Stronger Faction Can Readily Unite and Oppress the Weaker, Anarchy May As Truly Be Said To Resign As In A State of Nature

Posted on October 15, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principle: Legislation Can Neither Be Wise Nor Just Which Seeks the Welfare of A Single Interest At the Expense and To the Injury of Many and Varied Interests

Posted on October 14, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.” – Andrew Johnson

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First Principles: Our Obligations To Our Country Never Cease But With Our Lives

Posted on October 13, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives.” – John Adams (1808) Happy 247th Birthday to the United States Navy!!

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First Principles: Human Government Is More Or Less Perfect As It Approaches Nearer Or Diverges Farther From the Imitation of This Perfect Plan of Divine and Moral Government

Posted on October 12, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Human government is more or less perfect as it approaches nearer or diverges farther from the imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.” – John Adams, 1770

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First Principles: I Place Economy Among the First and Most Important of Republican Virtues, and Public Debt As the Greatest of Dangers To Be Feared

Posted on October 11, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“I … place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. … Taxation follows that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.”– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Cause of America Is In A Great Measure the Cause of All Mankind

Posted on October 10, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind.” – Thomas Paine (1776)

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First Principles: Wherever the Real Power In A Government Lies, There Is the Danger of Oppression

Posted on October 9, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.” – James Madison (1788)

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