There is one transcendant advantage belonging to the province of the State governments... --I mean the ordinary administration of criminal and civil justice.
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The people are turbulent and changing they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct permanent share in the government... Can a democratic assembly who annually revolve in the mass of the people be supposed steadily to pursue the public goodAlexander Hamilton
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
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In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
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There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.
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