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1 day ago · No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows. The origin of society then is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of those who associate.
2 days ago · Hamilton opposed a bill of rights in The Federalist No. 84, stating that "the constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights." He stated that ratification did not mean the American people were surrendering their rights, making protections unnecessary: "Here, in strictness, the people surrender ...
Jun 24, 2024 · months later in Federalist 84. Hamilton wrote that a bill of rights would be ''not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution. but would even be dangerous.'' And he asked, ''why declare things shall not be done, which there is no power to do? Why, for instance, should it be said, that the liberty of the press shall
Jun 10, 2024 · What were Hamilton’s arguments against a Bill of Rights? ...more.
Jun 17, 2024 · In the Federalist No. 44, James Madison asserted that ex post facto laws are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.
3 days ago · Federalist papers, series of 85 essays on the proposed new Constitution of the United States and on the nature of republican government, published between 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay in an effort to persuade New York state voters to support ratification.
Jun 10, 2024 · Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 84, 575–8128 May 1788. The most considerable of these remaining objections is, that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights. Among other answers given to this, it has been upon different occasions remarked, that the constitutions of several of the states are in a similar predicament.
