As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.
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Some people might say, Aha They forgot about the Constitution's general welfare clause ... With respect to the two words 'general welfare,' I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.
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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.
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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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