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,...
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,...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 24, 2013 | Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Founders, Government, Quotes
“Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check the usurpations of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 22, 2013 | Blackstone, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“Good and wise men, in all ages…have supposed, that the deity, from the relations, we stand in, to himself and to each other, has constituted an eternal and immutable law, which is, indispensably, obligatory upon all mankind, prior to any human institution...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 22, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, John Locke, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“The state of Nature has a law of Nature to govern it, which obliges every one, and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 21, 2013 | Constitution, Economics, Founders, Government, James Madison, President, Quotes
“If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions. It is to be remarked that...
