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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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It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

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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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Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the li...more