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... delusion , unless all have arrived when the rights of man are generally the capacity to know , and thus to preserve in- understood , and he is restored , in some por- violate , their civil and political rights . No tions at least of the ...
... delusion , unless all have arrived when the rights of man are generally the capacity to know , and thus to preserve in- understood , and he is restored , in some por- violate , their civil and political rights . No tions at least of the ...
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... delusion , and as the framers of eering contests . As it was known that con- the constitution knew from experience , that tests would arise between portions of the com- however virtuous and enlightened the people munity as to the ...
... delusion , and as the framers of eering contests . As it was known that con- the constitution knew from experience , that tests would arise between portions of the com- however virtuous and enlightened the people munity as to the ...
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... delusion will vanish , their fervor will subside unconstitutionality of the bill under consider into the calm of that right reason which they ation had been portrayed in the brightness of possess , and which seldom , if ever , errs . Be ...
... delusion will vanish , their fervor will subside unconstitutionality of the bill under consider into the calm of that right reason which they ation had been portrayed in the brightness of possess , and which seldom , if ever , errs . Be ...
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... delusion , unless some power exist , indepen - pointed , they must have commanded the es- dent of the majority , to defend those sacred teem and applause of all the virtuous and dis- rights from violation by the majority - to whom ...
... delusion , unless some power exist , indepen - pointed , they must have commanded the es- dent of the majority , to defend those sacred teem and applause of all the virtuous and dis- rights from violation by the majority - to whom ...
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... delusion . were brought forward . " straining one , which has been just recited , was an act of great self - denial . To tie up the hands of future legislatures , so as to deprive them of the power of repeating similar acts on any ...
... delusion . were brought forward . " straining one , which has been just recited , was an act of great self - denial . To tie up the hands of future legislatures , so as to deprive them of the power of repeating similar acts on any ...
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Page 59 - 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 132 - 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 83 - 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 83 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in heir deaths.
Page 132 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Page 126 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles, than that every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm, that the deputy is greater than his principal; that the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves; that men acting by virtue of powers, may do not...
Page 197 - This is one of those truths which, to a correct and unprejudiced mind, carries its own evidence along with it; and may be obscured, but cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is- expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Page 190 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 126 - It is far more rational to suppose that the courts were designed to be an intermediate body between the people and the legislature, in order, among other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
Page 84 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.