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The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit. (Alexander Hamilton)
The foregoing suggestions are not designed to inculcate an opinion that manufacturing industry is more productive than that of Agriculture. They are intended rather to shew that the reverse of this proposition is not ascertained. View quote
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In the mean time, the maintenance of two Citizens, instead of one, is going on; the State has two members instead of one; and they together consume twice the value of what is produced from the land. View quote
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The prodigious affect of such a Machine is easily conceived. To this invention is to be attributed essentially the immense progress, which has been so suddenly made in Great Britain in the various fabrics of Cotton. View quote
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The complete independence of the Courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited Constitution. By a limited Constitution, I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the Legislative authority. View quote
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The right of parliament to legislate for us cannot be accounted for upon any reasonable grounds. The constitution of Great Britain is very properly called a limited monarchy, the people having reserved to themselves a share in the legislature, as a check upon the regal authority, to prevent its degenerating into despotism and tyranny. View quote
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There is yet a further and a weightier reason for the permanency of the Judicial offices, which is deducible from the nature of the qualifications they require. View quote
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To produce the desirable changes, as early as may be expedient, may therefore require the incitement and patronage of government. View quote
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The rights of neutrality will only be respected, when they are defended by an adequate power. View quote
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Men often oppose a thing, merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike. But if they have been consulted, and have happened to disapprove, opposition then becomes, in their estimation, an indispensable duty of self-love. View quote
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That inflexible and uniform adherence to the rights of the Constitution, and of individuals, which we perceive to be indispensable in the Courts of justice, can certainly not be expected from Judges who hold their offices by a temporary commission. Periodical appointments. (Alexander Hamilton)
But the success of attempts in this way, must evidently depend much on the manner of conducting them. View quote
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Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the 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. View quote
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If the system of perfect liberty to industry and commerce were the prevailing system of nations. View quote
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It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. View quote
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There still are, nevertheless, respectable patrons of opinions, unfriendly to the encouragement of manufactures. The following are, substantially, the arguments, by which these opinions are defended. View quote
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The manufactures of Iron are entitled to pre-eminent rank. View quote
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A constant and increasing necessity, on their part, for the commodities of Europe, and only a partial and occasional demand for their own, in return, could not but expose them to a state of impoverishment. View quote
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I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. The result of the deliberations of all collective bodies must necessarily be a compound, as well of the errors and prejudices, as of the good sense and wisdom, of the individuals of whom they are composed. View quote
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I have studied it, and I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted to the mind of man. View quote
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In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry? (Alexander Hamilton)
Your people, sir,-your people is a great beast! View quote
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Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them properly armed and equipped; and in order to see that this be not neglected, it will be necessary to assemble them once or twice in the course of a year. View quote
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This idea of an opposition between those two interests is the common error of the early periods of every country, but experience gradually dissipates it. View quote
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In such a position of things, the United States cannot exchange with Europe on equal terms. View quote
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