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There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.

• Federalist No. 10

• Federalist No. 51

• Federalist No. 70

• Brutus No. 1

The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society; and can take no active resolution whatever.

• Federalist No. 10

• The Constitution

• Federalist No. 70

• Federalist No. 78

It might be here shewn, that the power in the federal legislative, to raise and support armies at pleasure, as well in peace as in war, and their controul over the militia, tend, not only to a consolidation of the government, but the destruction of liberty.

• Articles of Confederation

• Federalist No. 10

• Brutus No. 1

• Federalist No. 51

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

• Federalist No. 10

• Brutus No. 1

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

• Federalist No. 51

Extend the sphere, and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have a common motive to invade the rights of other citizens; or if such a common motive exists, it will be more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength, and to act in unison with each other.

• Federalist No. 10

• Federalist No. 51

• Brutus No. 1

• Federalist No. 70

Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled.

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• Brutus No. 1

• Federalist No. 10

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

• The Articles of Confederation

• The U.S. Constitution

• Federalist No. 70

• Federalist No. 78

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

• The Articles of Confederation

• The U.S. Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

In determining questions in the united states, in Congress assembled, each state shall have one vote.

• The Articles of Confederation

• Article I of the U.S. Constitution

• The Declaration of Independence

• Federalist No. 51

If, then, the courts of justice are to be considered as the bulwarks of a limited Constitution against legislative encroachments, this consideration will afford a strong argument for the permanent tenure of judicial offices, since nothing will contribute so much as this to that independent spirit in the judges which must be essential to the faithful performance of so arduous a duty.

• Article III of the Constitution

• Federalist No. 70

• Federalist No. 78

• The Articles of Confederation