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" 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... "
Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and Times - Page 197
by George Robertson - 1855 - 404 pages
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The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 1998 - 220 pages
...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...to possess the means by which it is to be attained. (No. 23) ALL VIOLENT POLICY, contrary to the natural and experienced course of human affairs, defeats...
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Federalism, the Supreme Court, and the Seventeenth Amendment: The Irony of ...

Ralph A. Rossum - Law - 2001 - 324 pages
...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...possess the means by which it is to be attained." Emphasis in the original. 11. Federalist No. 25, 163. See also No. 41, 270: "The means of security...
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Department of Justice Oversight: Preserving Our Freedoms While ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Civil rights - 2002 - 658 pages
...common defense. This "truth," according to Hamilton, rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal. The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the...expected, ought to possess the means by which, it is to be attained.8 The Supreme Court has confirmed Hamilton's view that the Constitution confers on the...
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The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 692 pages
...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...attained. Whether there ought to be a federal government intrusted with the care of the common defense is a question in the first instance open to discussion;...
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A Revolution in Favor of Government:: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and ...

Max. M Edling - History - 2003 - 356 pages
...exigencies. or the correspondent extent & variety of the means which may be necessary to satisfy them. . . . The means ought to be proportioned to the end: the...possess the means by which it is to be attained." The Federalist 23. ibid.. 4. "Let the federal head be constituted as it may. there can be no perfect...
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The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the ...

Edward Steers - History - 2003 - 560 pages
...plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the meane ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from...possess the means by which it is to be attained." Federalist, No. 23. In the same great contest for the adoption of the Constitution, Madison, sometimes...
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The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - History - 2003 - 642 pages
...axioms as simple as they are universal: the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the person, from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected,...possess the means by which it is to be attained."* This same writer insinuates, that the opponents to the plan promulgated by the convention, manifests...
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American Political Rhetoric: A Reader

Peter Augustine Lawler, Robert Martin Schaefer - Political Science - 2005 - 444 pages
...be made 347 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...attained. Whether there ought to be a Federal Government intrusted with the care of the common defence, is a question in the first instance open to discussion;...
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The Political Theory of a Compound Republic: Designing the American Experiment

Vincent Ostrom - Political Science - 2008 - 320 pages
...constituted make for critical differences in the character of political institutions. PROPOSITION 6. The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the...to possess the means by which it is to be attained (Federalist 23, par. 5). In assigning authority to persons who are to act on behalf of a community...
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Classics of American Political and Constitutional Thought

Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...axioms as simple as they are universal: the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the person, xlP [. . .] But with submission to this author's better judgment, I humbly conceive his reasoning will...
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