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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.

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The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.
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Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
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A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
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They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.
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I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution.
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As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
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