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First Principles: The Aim of Constitutions Is To Obtain Leaders Who Pursue the Common Good of Society
“The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading
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First Principles: Laws Should Be Consistent and Easily Understood
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws … undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess … Continue reading
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Tagged Consistent, Defined, First Principles, James Madison, Law, Rule, Steady, Understandable
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First Principles: Encroachments On Liberty Often Have Small Beginnings
“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, … Continue reading
First Principles: When War Becomes Necessary, Immediately Set Out the Terms of Peace
“To render the justice of the war on our part the more conspicuous, the reluctance to commence it was followed by the earliest and strongest manifestations of a disposition to arrest its progress. The sword was scarcely out of the … Continue reading
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First Principles: Love of Country Requires Valuing Its Defense
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and … Continue reading
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Tagged Defense, Federalist No. 41, Federalist Papers, First Principles, James Madison, Liberty, Patriotism, Peace, Perservation
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First Principles: Private Morality Must Precede Public
“If individuals be not influenced by moral principles; it is in vain to look for public virtue; it is, therefore, the duty of legislators to enforce, both by precept and example, the utility, as well as the necessity of a … Continue reading
First Principles: Protection of Person and Property Are the Two Proper Aims of Government
“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was … Continue reading
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First Principles: Power Should Be Restrained From Encroaching
“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788
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Tagged Encroachment, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Limits, Nature, Power, Restraint, The Federalist Papers
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First Principles: Useful Law Needs To Be Able To Be Easily Read and Understood
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading
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Tagged Coherent, Constitution, Federalist No. 62, First Principles, Government, James Madison, Law, Legislation, Read, The People, Understood, Volume
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First Principles: The Eyes of the World Cause the US To Be A Better Nation
“The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits … Continue reading
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