Author: mr billmr bill
Date: Jan 19, 2008 09:53
"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty
than to those attending too small a degree of it."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare but
only those specifically enumerated."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"[T]he powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate
in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects,
beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction."
-- James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention [June 6, 1788]
...[T]he government of the United States is a definite government, confined
to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are
more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government."
--James Madison
"...the opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are
constitutional and what not, not only for themselves in their own sphere of
action but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would
make the Judiciary a despotic branch."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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