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Admission of Aliens to US Citizenship

Freedom1 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:18:09 +0000

Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government; and to admit of a probability at least, of their feeling a real interest in our affairs.

~ Alexander Hamilton

Founder of 1st Abolitionist Society

Freedom1 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:23:35 +0000

Two founder, John Jay and Benjamin Franklin started the first abolitionist societies in America.

Click the link below to read more about John Jay.

John Jay and Slavery

Property as Sacred as God’s Law

Freedom1 — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 12:26:54 +0000

“The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.”

Fourth Verse of the Star Spangled Banner: Let This Be Our Motto, In God is Our Trust

Freedom1 — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:54:23 +0000

The Meaning of Liberty

Freedom1 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:32:35 +0000

Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. Tiffany, 1819.

“Of liberty I would say that, in the whole plenitude of its extent, it is unobstructed action according to our will. But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law,’ because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.”

Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Principles of the Constitution of the United States of America, and on the Violations of them December 1825

Freedom1 — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:02:23 +0000

“This assembly does further disavow and declare to be most false and unfounded, the doctrine that the compact, in authorizing its federal branch to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States, has given them thereby a power to do whatever they may think, or pretend, would promote the general welfare, which construction would make that, of itself, a complete government, without limitation of powers; but that the plain sense and obvious meaning were, that they might levy the taxes necessary to provide for the general welfare, by the various acts of power therein specified and delegated to them, and by no others.”

Best Guides for our Nation & States

Freedom1 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:43:56 +0000

“And on the distinctive principles of the Government of our own State, and of that of the United States, the best guides are to be found in—

1. The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental act of Union of these States.

2. The book known by the title of the “Federalist,” being an Authority to which appeal is habitually made by all & rarely declined or denied by any, as evidence of the general opinion of those who framed & those who accepted the Constitution of the United States on questions as to its genuine meaning.

3. The Resolutions of the General Assembly of Virginia in 1799, on the subject of the Alien & Sedition laws, which appeared to accord with the predominant sense of the people of the U.S.

4. The Inaugural Speech & Farewell Address of President Washington, as conveying political lessons of peculiar value; and that in the branch of the School of law which is to treat on the subject of Government, these shall be used as the text & documents of the School.” Letter to Thomas Jefferson

Constitution NOT a Living Document

Freedom1 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:12:32 +0000

James Madison

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government. James Madison

Tumult of Liberty Preferable to the Quiet of Servitude

Freedom1 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:42:17 +0000

“Governments, wherein the will of every one has a just influence… has its evils,… the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. [I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.] Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs.” –Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:64

Usurpation of the Government

Freedom1 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 22:38:11 +0000

“The government of a nation may be usurped by the forcible intrusion of an individual into the throne. But to conquer its will so as to rest the right on that, the only legitimate basis, requires long acquiescence and cessation of all opposition.” –Thomas Jefferson to —-, 1825. ME 16:127