Saturday - 02Mar2019 Filed in:
Quotes & Thinkums&Politics&Law““The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.””
Tags: Alexander Hamilton ∙ states rights ∙ state government ∙ National governent ∙ encroachments
Saturday - 23Jun2018 Filed in:
Quotes & Thinkums&Politics&Law““There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.””
— James Madison
Tags: James Madison ∙ freedom ∙ abridgment ∙ encroachments ∙ usurpations