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Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting ...more

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I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; be...more

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Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the ...more

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The dead should not rule the living.

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise th...more