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Every attempt to employ the theory proved equally self-serving and futile. In 1809, the Court explicitly rejected the application of the concept to federal judicial rulings. “If the legislatures of the several States may, at will, annul the
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
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“I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D'Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to Thomas Law, 13 June 1814]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
“The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellowmen.”
― The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
― The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
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