Tag Archives: The People

First Principles: The States Can Best Govern Our Home Concerns…I Wish Therefore…Never To See All Offices Transferred To Washington

Posted on September 20, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“The States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore … never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly … Continue reading →

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First Principles: I Tremble For My Country When I Reflect That God Is Just: That His Justice Cannot Sleep Forever

Posted on August 8, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Dependence On the People Is, No Doubt, the Primary Control On the Government; But Experience Has Taught Mankind the Necessity of Auxiliary Pre Cautions

Posted on August 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions.” – James Madison (1788)

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How Much Law Is Enough Law?

Posted on August 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

How Much Law Is Enough Law?by Michael DoyleIt is no secret that laws weren’t to be numerousNor were our laws meant to be written as voluminous Every one of our Founding Fathers made that clearWhen they said as much and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Every Government Degenerates When Trusted To the Rulers of the People Alone. The People Themselves, Therefore, Are Its Only Safe Depositories

Posted on July 18, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.” – Thomas Jefferson (1781)

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First Principles: The Time To Guard Against Corruption and Tyranny, Is Before They Shall Have Gotten Hold of Us

Posted on July 12, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in … Continue reading →

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Citizens: Me and You

Posted on June 27, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Citizens: Me and Youby Michael DoyleI. This nation was born under the authorityBlessed into birth by God’s wise dignityAs one filled with freedom and libertyGiven to us, not by government, but God’s divinityWe, this republic, are born by providenceThat all … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Blessed Is the Nation Whose God Is the Lord; and the People Whom He Hath Chosen For His Own Inheritance

Posted on June 23, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” – Psalms 33:12

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First Principles: It Seems To Have To Have Been Reserved To the People of This Country, By their Conduct and Example, To Decide the Important Questions

Posted on June 21, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“It seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important questions, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or … Continue reading →

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First Principles: This Balance Between the National and State Governments Ought To Be Dwelt On With Peculiar Attention, As It Is Of the Utmost Importance

Posted on June 7, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms a double security to the people. If one encroaches on their rights they will find … Continue reading →

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