The Federalist papers

“If you read Federalist 51, James Madison is talking about if angels were to govern, if human beings were angels, no government would be necessary. If human beings were devils, then no government would be capable.”

“The Federalist Paper is a big one in terms of sort of how American politics works.”

“so the number of them have actually said you know those federalist papers that really interesting”

“so James Madison in Federalist 51 said that the structure of the government should be such”

“If you have a taste for 18th century language, read the Federalist Papers, um a series of newspaper op-eds arguing um that the Constitution is a you know, a good document that should be ratified.”

“they think the the conservative leaning justices are just like toing their mustache being like we will turn the country into the Federalist Papers”

“the vulnerability in the system here goes way back in Federal's 51 James Madison set out the challenge he and his colleagues faced in writing the Constitution”

“By the way, you know, these were very, very smart people, right? And so they knew tremendous amounts of like Greek and Roman history. They knew the Renaissance history, you know, "The Federalist Papers," they argue this a great length.”

“in the Federalist Papers 10 and 51 James Madison emphasized that the structure of govern was meant to ensure that both state and federal governments would limit each other's excesses including their financial ones”

“We require them to learn about the Federalist Papers, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and all that great stuff.”

“It is a vision of separation of church and state; fine, you can have any religion you want, but just don't impose it on me. The roots of America are in the enlightenment, the Declaration, and the Constitution. If we can resurrect the spirit of the Founders, if we can bring that back, and that's a positive vision.”

“in fact i think james charles taylor has a very interesting book revisiting james the variety's religious experience and he talks about this idea that james looks at people who have religion in this sanguine sense”

“Alexander Hamilton was very explicit about that in the Federalist Papers and elsewhere.”

“But you read his writings and what have you as he played his part, "The Federalist Papers" and so forth in establishing the land of the free, it's brilliant stuff, and to dismiss the wisdom of the ages because somehow we're cleverer and they were lesser, no conservative should ever adopt that line.”

“if you go back to the arguments for the pardon being in the Constitution you can see that Alexander Hamilton wrote deeply about it in Federalist Paper number 74”

“Which again, it’s not Charlie Kirk’s idea; it’s Madison’s idea and Hamilton’s idea and Jay— they wrote this for a reason because they did not want senators to become pseudo-celebrities.”

“If you read The Federalist Papers and I went through a couple of these recently and I used ChatGPT to help me kind of, you know, bring out some of I think the key points but in the Federalist Papers 10 and 51 James Madison emphasized that the structure of govern was meant to ensure that both state and federal”

“And then in the Federalist Paper number 58 he said the House of Representatives has control over the quote power of the purse which gives the people’s representatives authority over taxation and spending but they also warned along with Alexander Hamilton of the dangers of unchecked government power through burdensome taxation and excess spending which would ultimately erode individual freedoms.”

“That's actually, Jon, that three feet high thing, you, me, it's a quote from The Federalist Papers!”

“But these are, you know, well-educated, well-read, you imagine him just like poring over the Federal Papers, but he's not.”

“well John maybe you haven't read Federal's paper 11 says the roles and responsibilities of Congress are to provide checks and balances on the president”

“now the judge ruling that actually this violates the law is literally citing Hamilton in their footnotes.”

“Go back to the Federalist Papers, and you'll see the argument that these constituencies around the country are going to have so-called competing local jealousies.”

“corporate political power was not even a topic in the cons institutional debates nor of The Federalist Papers”

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