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First Principles: To Disarm the People…Was the Best and Most Effectual Way to Enslave Them
“To disarm the people… was the best and most effectual way to enslave them.” - George Mason
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First Principles: There Must Be A Positive Passion For the Public Good…Established In the Minds of the People, Or There Can Be No Republican Government
“There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honour, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty.” – John Adams (1776)
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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 A Just Observation That the People Commonly Intend the Public Good. This Often Applies To Their Very Errors.
“It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting … Continue reading
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Tagged Adulator, Alexander Hamilton, Common, Despise, Errors, First Principles, Good Sense, Just Observation, Means, Pretend, Promote, Public Good, Reason, The People
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Fairness of Trials Had
Fairness of Trials Hadby Michael DoyleIn this free land of dignity and rightThe Bill of Rights shines into the nightAmended to our Constitution, our governmentHolds these rights as something self-evidentThe fairness of trials in the Sixth AmendmentMay not seem as … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abuse of Authority, Bill of Rights, Chains of Tyranny, Confrontation, Constitution, Cower, Dignity, Equitable Sense, Fairness, Fairness of Trials, Feedoms, Founding Principle, Free Land, Government, Impartiality, Inspire, Legality, Love of Power, Mistreated, Pause, Poetry and Poems, Processes, Protected, Public Trial, Respected, Right, Right to Trial, Rights and Freedoms, Secure, Self-Evident, Shield, Sixth Amendment, The People, Trials, Unequal, Witnesses
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First Principles: The Rights of Conscience, of Bearing Arms, of Changing the Government, Are Declared To Be Inherent In the People
“The rights of conscience, of bearing arms, of changing the government, are declared to be inherent in the people.” – Fisher Ames
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First Principles: To Suppose That Any Form of Government Will Secure Liberty or Happiness Without Any Virtue In the People, Is A Chimerical Idea
“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. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any … Continue reading
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Tagged Chimerical Idea, First Principles, Form, Government, Happiness, James Madison, Liberty, Render, Secure, Suppse, The People, Theoretical Checks, Virtue, Wretched Situtation
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First Principles: If We Can Prevent the Government From Wasting the Labors of the People, Under the Pretence of Taking Care of Them, They Must Become Happy
“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.” – Thomas Jefferson (1802)
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First Principles: If the Policy of the Government Upon Vital Questions Affecting the Whole People Is To Be Irrevocably Fixed By Decisions of the Supreme Court…The People Will Have Ceased To Be Their Own Rulers
“[I]f the policy of the government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court…the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their … Continue reading
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