by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Blackstone, Constitution, Government, Natural Law, Philosophers, Quotes
“And these[great Natural Rights] may be reduced to three principal or primary articles: the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property; because as there is no other known method of compulsion, or of abridging...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Thomas Jefferson
“In questions of power … let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” Thomas Jefferson Courtesy of the National Center for Constitutional Studies (www.nccs.net)
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes, Uncategorized
“Government is instituted to protect property of every sort …. This being the end of government, that is NOT a just government,… nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has … is violated by arbitrary seizures of one...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Freedom, Government, John Adams, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If ‘Thou shalt not covet’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal’ were not...
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Founders, Government, James Madison, Natural Law, President, Quotes
“The powers delegated by the … Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” James Madison from the Federalist Papers
by Mike Van Schoiack | Oct 17, 2013 | Constitution, Education, Government, Natural Law, Quotes, Religion
“.every citizen … is taught . the doctrines and the evidences of his religion, the history of his country, and the leading features of its Constitution … it is extremely rare to find a man imperfectly acquainted with all these things, and a person...
