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The coat of constitutional mail bolted around the Senate was sturdy indeed—by design. Under the new Constitution, the power of the executive and the power of the people would be very strong. So to enable the Senate to stand against these powers—to stand against them for centuries to come—the framers of the Constitution made the Senate very strong.
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The greatest defense of the Constitution was a series of essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay under the collective pseudonym Publius and later collected as The Federalist.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
The law is provisional. It fails as often as it works. It's made up and improvised and inconsistent.
David Milch
Nothing went in print for a politician unless it was iron-clad.
Matthew Richardson • The Scarlet Papers: The Times Thriller of the Year 2023
The Founders' Key: The Divine and Natural Connection Between the Declaration and the Constitution and What We Risk by Losing It
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In Locke’s form of the doctrine, however, the government is a party to the contract, and can be justly resisted if it fails to fulfil its part of the bargain. Locke’s doctrine is, in essence, more or less democratic, but the democratic element is limited by the view (implied rather than expressed) that those who have no property are not to be recko
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