“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”
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Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason.
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.
