Roots of Liberty

Roots of Liberty is designed to promote greater understanding of America's founding principles.

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"A spirit of faction...will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses..."

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"Government implies the power of making laws"
-Federalist Paper #15

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"[America] reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe"
-Federalist Paper 14

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"Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course"
-Federalist Paper 14

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"Posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre"

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"America united with a handful of troops exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited"
-Federalist Paper 14

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"The general government's jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all members of the republic..."
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"It is to be remembered that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws"
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"A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."
-Federalist Paper #14

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It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it...

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"We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves..."

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"The supposition that each confederacy into which the States would be likely to be divided would require a government ..."

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"Nothing can be more evident than that the 13 States will be able to support a national government better than one half or any number less"

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"The separation of States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is too extravagant and too replete with danger to have advocates"

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"If the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support"
-Federalist Paper #13

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"The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much less to be drawn from the pockets of people"

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"Civil power, properly organized and exerted, is capable of diffusing its force to a very great extent"
-Federalist Paper #13

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"But public and private distress will...unite in deploring the infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion."
-Federalist Paper #12

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"A nation cannot long exist without revenues."
-Federalist Paper #12

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"The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws."
-Federalist Paper #12