The Federalist: On the New ConstitutionBenjamin Warner, 1817 - 477 pages |
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... provision for their discharge . Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power , which by express stipulation , ought long since to have been surrendered ? These are still retained , to the pre ...
... provision for their discharge . Have we valuable territories and important posts in the possession of a foreign power , which by express stipulation , ought long since to have been surrendered ? These are still retained , to the pre ...
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... provision for the efficacy of the federal powers , they took an oath mutually to defend and pro- tect the united cities , to punish the violators of this oath , and to inflict vengeance on sacrilegious despoilers of the temple . In ...
... provision for the efficacy of the federal powers , they took an oath mutually to defend and pro- tect the united cities , to punish the violators of this oath , and to inflict vengeance on sacrilegious despoilers of the temple . In ...
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... provision for accommodating disputes among the cantons . The provision is , that the parties at variance shall each choose four judges out of the neutral cantons , who , in case of disagreement , choose an umpire . This tribunal , under ...
... provision for accommodating disputes among the cantons . The provision is , that the parties at variance shall each choose four judges out of the neutral cantons , who , in case of disagreement , choose an umpire . This tribunal , under ...
Page 107
... provision , which has been of late a repeated theme of the eu- logies of those who oppose the new constitution ; and the omis- sion of which , in that plan , has been the subject of much plau- sible animadversion , and severe criticism ...
... provision , which has been of late a repeated theme of the eu- logies of those who oppose the new constitution ; and the omis- sion of which , in that plan , has been the subject of much plau- sible animadversion , and severe criticism ...
Page 108
... provision itself . It could be no impediment to re- forms of the state constitutions by a majority of the people in a legal and peaceable mode . This right would remain undimin- ished . The guarantee could only operate against changes ...
... provision itself . It could be no impediment to re- forms of the state constitutions by a majority of the people in a legal and peaceable mode . This right would remain undimin- ished . The guarantee could only operate against changes ...
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Page 50 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community...
Page 269 - If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Page 253 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 388 - The Executive not only dispenses the honors, but holds the sword of the community. The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated. The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL, but merely judgment; and must...
Page 51 - So strong is this propensity of mankind to fall into mutual animosities, that where no substantial occasion presents itself, the most frivolous and fanciful distinctions have been sufficient to kindle their unfriendly passions and excite their most violent conflicts. But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property.
Page 50 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 388 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the courts of justice ; whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Page 51 - No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not improbably, corrupt his integrity. With equal, nay, with greater reason, a body of men are unfit to be both judges and parties at the same time; yet what are many of the most important acts of legislation but so many judicial determinations, not indeed concerning the rights of single persons, but concerning the rights of large bodies of citizens ? And what are the different classes of...
Page 12 - Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people— a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs...
Page 236 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace ; enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.