who behave amiss, or betray their public trust.
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Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this When I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. I explore it in all its bearings. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort which I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.Alexander Hamilton
That this gentleman President John Adams ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration. His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government. There are defects in his character which must inevitably continue to do this more and more. And if he is supported by the federal party, his party must in the issue fall with him.
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But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.
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To model our political system upon speculations of lasting tranquility, is to calculate on the weaker springs of the human character.
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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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In the general course of human nature, A power over a man's subsistence amounts to a power over his will.
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