Republican Government Quotes
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In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes (Republican Government Quotes)
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people (Republican Government Quotes)
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments (Republican Government Quotes)
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management (Republican Government Quotes)
A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government (Republican Government Quotes)
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other (Republican Government Quotes)
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing (Republican Government Quotes)
The regular distribution of power into distinct departments; the introduction of legislative balances and checks; the institution of courts composed of judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election... They are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided (Republican Government Quotes)
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this... is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to render them by different modes of election, and different principles of action, as little connected with each other as the nature of their common functions, and their common dependence on the society, will admit (Republican Government Quotes)
A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it’s momentum becomes irresistible (Republican Government Quotes)
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments (Republican Government Quotes)
... The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not (Republican Government Quotes)
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government (Republican Government Quotes)
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