The Federalist: A Collection of EssaysColonial Press, 1901 - 488 páginas |
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... interests , unperplexed and unbiassed by considerations not con- nected with the public good . But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected . The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many ...
... interests , unperplexed and unbiassed by considerations not con- nected with the public good . But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected . The plan offered to our deliberations affects too many ...
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... interests can never be separated ; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government ...
... interests can never be separated ; and that a dangerous ambition more often lurks behind the specious mask of zeal for the rights of the people than under the forbidding appearance of zeal for the firmness and efficiency of government ...
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... interest , but others , from a mistaken estimate of consequences , or the undue influence of former attachments , or whose ... interests of their country , they must have acquired very accurate knowledge on that head . That they were ...
... interest , but others , from a mistaken estimate of consequences , or the undue influence of former attachments , or whose ... interests of their country , they must have acquired very accurate knowledge on that head . That they were ...
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... interests . That con- sideration naturally tends to create great respect for the high opinion which the people of America have so long and uni- formly entertained of the importance of their continuing firmly united under one federal ...
... interests . That con- sideration naturally tends to create great respect for the high opinion which the people of America have so long and uni- formly entertained of the importance of their continuing firmly united under one federal ...
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... interests of a part than of the whole ; of one or two States than of the Union . Not a single Indian war has yet been occasioned by aggressions of the present federal gov- ernment , feeble as it is ; but there are several instances of ...
... interests of a part than of the whole ; of one or two States than of the Union . Not a single Indian war has yet been occasioned by aggressions of the present federal gov- ernment , feeble as it is ; but there are several instances of ...
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Página 135 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Página 247 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Página 288 - In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature, where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger...
Página 429 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Página 435 - NEXT to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support.
Página 268 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Página 246 - Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.
Página 47 - ... of legislators, but advocates and parties to the causes which they determine? Is a law proposed concerning private debts? It is a question to which the creditors are parties on one side, and the debtors on the other. Justice ought to hold the balance between them. Yet the parties are and must be themselves the judges; and the most numerous party, or in other words, the most powerful faction must be expected to prevail.
Página 50 - It must be confessed that in this, as in most other cases, there is a mean, on both sides of which inconveniences will be found to lie. By enlarging too much the number of electors, you render the representative too little acquainted with all their local circumstances and lesser interests; as by reducing it too much, you render him unduly attached to these, and too little fit to comprehend and pursue great and national objects. The federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the...
Página 429 - there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers.