The Country of "No"

"History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government."
-- Bell v. Hood, 71 F. Supp., 813, 816 (1947)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster

"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights."
-- Edmund A. Opitz

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James Madison Quote on Excess of Power and Respect

"As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions."

-James Madison
National Gazette Essay, March 27, 1792


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"It's My Right"

Have you ever heard the phrase, "That's unconstitutional" or "That's my constitutional right!"? Many times American citizens believe sayings and phrases are in our Constitution, but they really don't know if they are or not.

Let us celebrate Constitution Week September 17 – 23, by resolving to be better-informed and responsible citizens. Read the Constitution!

This Constitutional moment was provided by the James Waldrop Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, of Fayetteville, Georgia.

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