Page 174 - Beers With Our Founding Fathers

Beers with our Founding Fathers

 “A just security to property is not afforded by that

government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species
of property and reward another species.”

 “Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a
sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be

bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the
new Constitution will, if established, be a Federal, and not a

National constitution.”
 “Equal laws protecting equal rights — the best guarantee of

loyalty and love of country.”
 “Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his

country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever

before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due
attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due
value on the means of preserving it.”

 “If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done

by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the
Government is no longer a limited one, possessing

enumerated powers, but an indefinite one, subject to
particular exceptions.”

 “In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general
government is not to be charged with the whole power of

making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to
certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members

of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the
separate provisions of any.”

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