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First Principles: Choose Economy and Liberty Over Profusion and Servitude

Posted on July 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“We must make our election between economy and Liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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First Principles: The Necessity of Any Government Is A Misfortune

Posted on July 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune.” – James Madison, 1833

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First Principles: The More Powerful the Federal Government Grows, the Weaker the State Governments Become

Posted on July 15, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: It Takes Industrious Persons With Excellent Moral Principles To Successfully Lead Our Republic

Posted on July 8, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“If men of wisdom and knowledge, of moderation and temperance, of patience, fortitude and perseverance, of sobriety and true republican simplicity of manners, of zeal for the honour of the Supreme Being and the welfare of the commonwealth; if men … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Even the Best Constitution Will Not Be Effectual For A Corrupted People

Posted on July 3, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Without Virtue We Cannot Secure Our Nation

Posted on June 27, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks — no form of government can render us secure.” – James Madison (1778)

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First Principles: To Be Legitimate, A Government Should Secure and Enlarge The Natural Rights of Its Society

Posted on June 26, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The United States Is A Republic of Law Not Persons

Posted on June 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams (1775)

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First Principles: We Must Be Cautious Least Senators Become Citizens of the Capital and Not Their States

Posted on June 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.” — George Mason (1788)

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First Principles: Congress Is Meant To Be Limited With Enumerated Powers

Posted on June 6, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“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 … Continue reading →

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