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Democracy and Limits to Power

by Mike Van Schoiack | Feb 9, 2015 | Constitution, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Subject

“Democracy is bound by no principle of its own nature to say itself nay as to the exercise of any power.” Woodrow Wilson, Unpublished Essay: “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887

TJ on Rights of Man

by Mike Van Schoiack | Jan 12, 2015 | Founders, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.” Thomas Jefferson, Courtesy of BrainyQuotes

John Adams on Science of Government

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Education, Founders, Government, John Adams, President, Quotes, Uncategorized

“The science of government is my duty to study, more than all other sciences; the arts of legislation and administration and negotiation ought to take place of, indeed to exclude, in a manner, all other arts. I must study politics and war, that my sons may have...

James Madison on Congressional Limitations

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.” James Madison, Annals of Congress , 3rd Congress, 1st Session, Page 170...

Alexander Hamilton on Natural Law

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 31, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized

“Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving and beautifying that existence. He endowed him with rational faculties, by the help of which, to discern and pursue such things,...

James Madison on Federalism

by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 24, 2013 | Constitution, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes

“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace,...
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