One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a confrontation he had …

One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a confrontation he had with Bob Dole in the Oval Office after the 1996 election. Mr. Dole protested Mr. Clinton’s attack ads claiming the Republican wanted to harm Medicare, but the President merely smiled that Bubba grin and said, ‘You gotta do what you gotta do.’ Wall Street Journal
January 23, 2008

A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide …

A Union of the States containing such an ingredient seemed to provide for its own destruction. The use of force against a State would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. James Madison
In 1787 at the constitutional convention, regarding a proposal that was made to allow the federal government to suppress a seceding state.

In this country written constitutions were deemed essential to protect the rights …

In this country written constitutions were deemed essential to protect the rights and liberties of the people against the encroachments of power delegated to their governments, and the provisions of Magna Charta were incorporated into bills of rights, they were limitations upon all the powers of government, legislative as well as executive and judicial.

U.S. Supreme Court in Hurtado v. California 110 U.S. 516 (1884)

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