The fundamental law of the militia is, that it be created, directed and commanded by the laws, and ever for the support of the laws.
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It is essential... that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions... It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.John Adams
Forcing Mr. Duncan to go forward without adequate time to prepare will deprive him of his federal and Idaho Constitutional rights to the effective assistance of counsel, to prepare a defense and to basic fairness and due process.
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The government of the United States is not in any sense founded upon the Christian religion.
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The aspiring, noble principle founded in benevolence, and cherished by knowledge I mean the love of power, which has been so often the cause of slavery, has, whenever freedom has existed, been the cause of freedom
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There is but one element of government, and that is THE PEOPLE. From this element spring all governments. 'For a nation to be free, it is only necessary that she wills it.' For a nation to be slave, it is only necessary that she wills it.
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
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