Remarks Concerning the Government and the Laws of the United States of America: In Four Letters, Addressed to Mr. Adams ... |
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... Give me leave to afk you , whether , in the formation of your new laws , you have taken care to render them properly com mensurate with the understanding , propen- fities and paffions of the multitude , which is never fufficiently ...
... Give me leave to afk you , whether , in the formation of your new laws , you have taken care to render them properly com mensurate with the understanding , propen- fities and paffions of the multitude , which is never fufficiently ...
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... Give me leave to mention an additional Scruple ( I will not call my observations by any other name ) and this is that , in a republic where the fathers would offer to their children an example of the fimple manners of a demo- cracy , I ...
... Give me leave to mention an additional Scruple ( I will not call my observations by any other name ) and this is that , in a republic where the fathers would offer to their children an example of the fimple manners of a demo- cracy , I ...
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... give me leave to ask why , amidst thofe forms of government . ( where , under the pretext of guarding fiberty inviolate in the extreme , the citizens take no more pains to think , and to investigate the nature of the various points and ...
... give me leave to ask why , amidst thofe forms of government . ( where , under the pretext of guarding fiberty inviolate in the extreme , the citizens take no more pains to think , and to investigate the nature of the various points and ...
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... give it ( if I may venture on the ex- preffion ) the most favourable allurement to the prosecution of its own welfare ? Is it poffible to reflect without horror upon that mass of human beings who con- • See Conftitution of Pennfylvania ...
... give it ( if I may venture on the ex- preffion ) the most favourable allurement to the prosecution of its own welfare ? Is it poffible to reflect without horror upon that mass of human beings who con- • See Conftitution of Pennfylvania ...
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... give the power of managing and controling to thofe whom she has marked out for objects of fubmiffion to a fuperior government and direction . Let us defcend - into the human heart , in order to trace out the feeds of those paffions ...
... give the power of managing and controling to thofe whom she has marked out for objects of fubmiffion to a fuperior government and direction . Let us defcend - into the human heart , in order to trace out the feeds of those paffions ...
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Page 107 - Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people, being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in the various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people...
Page 273 - It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Page 265 - And whereas the ministers of the gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God, and the care of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions : therefore, no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall, at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding any civil or military office or place within this State.
Page 265 - It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the Universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience...
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Page 128 - AND WHEREAS we are required by the benevolent principles of rational liberty, not only to expel civil tyranny, but also to guard against that spiritual oppression and intolerance wherewith the bigotry and ambition of weak and wicked priests and princes have scourged mankind...
Page 267 - That all men have a natural and unalienable right to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own consciences and understanding: and that no man ought or of right can be compelled to attend any religious worship, or erect or support any place of worship, or maintain any ministry, contrary to, or against his own free will and consent...
Page 267 - ... nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of a God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Page 91 - Commonwealth, for seven years next preceding ; and unless he shall, at the same time, be seized, in his own right, of a freehold within the Commonwealth, of the value of one thousand pounds ; and unless he shall declare himself to be of the Christian religion.
Page 162 - The people have a right to keep and to bear arms for the common defence: and as, in time of peace, armies are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be maintained without the consent of the legislature ; and the military power shall always be held in an exact subordination to the civil authority, and be governed by it.