A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
JAMES MADISONWhat prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?
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The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
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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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Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.
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If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
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It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
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Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people.
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What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
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The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.
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The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.
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Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.
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If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
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Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
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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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