"The fundamental principle of our constitution ......" - Quote by George Washington
The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.
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“The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.”
“My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready.”
“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.”
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“An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave in not "distinctly and expressly affirmed" in it.”
“The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.”
“[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.”
More on Democracy
“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
“Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty.”