Here, let us again pause, and reflect, how admirably this division, and distribution of legislative power is adapted to preserve the liberty, and to promote the happiness of the people of the United StatesEFifthly, and lastly; by the separation of the judiciary from the legislative department; and the independence of the former, of the control, or influence of the latter, in any case where any individual may be aggrieved or oppressed, under colour of an unconstitutional act of the legislature, or executive. In England, on the contrary, the greatest political object may be attained, by laws, apparently of little importance, or amounting only to a slight domestic regulation: the game-laws, as was before observed, have been converted into the means of disarming the body of the people:E Saint George Tucker
Blackstone’s Commentaries (1803), Volume 1, Appendix, Note D [Section 13: Restraints on Powers of Congress con’t]. Whole Book.
Monthly Archives: August 2026
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors …
To support the death penalty requires placing your trust in state actors in our criminal justice system: police, prosecutors and the courts. That trust has been betrayed too many times. Timothy Lynch
Directory, Cato Institute’s Criminal Justice Project, Reason Magazine, July 2001
Unlike Presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. Dwight D. Eisenhower State …
Unlike Presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates. Dwight D. Eisenhower
State of the Union Address (34th President of the United States, 1890-1969)
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, …
Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe. James Madison
(1751-1836)
The Constitution is color-blind as far as I am concerned. Tom …
The Constitution is color-blind as far as I am concerned.
Tom Clancy
Executive Orders, 1996
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands …
The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife. President Theodore Roosevelt
From Immigration and the End of Self-Government, by Louis T. March, page 26.
The election of Hoover … should result in continued prosperity for 1929. Roger …
The election of Hoover … should result in continued prosperity for 1929. Roger W. Babson
Roger W. Babson addressing Wellesley College, 9/17/29 (financial statistician and founder of the Babson Institute)
The first thing to understand is that taxation is just taking money …
The first thing to understand is that taxation is just taking money from people by force or the threat of force. David Kelley
Executive Director Institute for Objectivist Studies, Investor’s Business Daily, April 1998
For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to …
For the average American freedom of speech is simply the freedom to repeat what everyone else is saying and no more. Gore Vidal
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one …
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier. H. L. Mencken