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  • The first principle of a civilized state is that power is legitimate only when it is under contract.

    "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".
  • Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

    Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates, J. W. Randolph, James Madison (1850). “The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws; Together with the Virginia Resolutions of December 21, 1798, Including the Debate and Proceedings Thereon in the House of Delegates of Virginia and Other Documents Illustrative of the Report and Resolutions”, p.136
  • The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

    Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Inaugural addresses and messages. Replies to public addresses. Indian addresses. Miscellaneous: 1. Notes on Virginia; 2. Biographical sketches of distinguished men; 3. The batture of New Orleans”, p.400
  • [O]ur rules can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God.

  • The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

    Government   Law   Errors  
    Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”
  • The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

    David A. Durfee, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, United States. President (1841-1845 : Tyler) (1970). “William Henry Harrison, 1773-1841: John Tyler, 1790-1862; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns
  • If any female feels she need anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.

    Self   Agency   Giving  
  • Every individual man has a bias which he must obey, and...it is only as he feels and obeys this that he rightly develops and attains his legitimate power in the world. It is his magnetic needle, which points always in one direction to his proper path.... He is never happy nor strong until he finds it, keeps it.

  • It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

    Life   God   Religious  
    Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)
  • Once the Afghan people vote and they choose their President with direct, secret ballot from all over the country, there will be a lot of difference in this country and a lot of legitimate power to flow with implementation.

    "Afganistan's Hamid Karzai". Interview with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. December 15, 2003.
  • The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788”, p.273
  • The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But 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.

    Notes on the State of Virginia, query 17 (1781 - 1785)
  • Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

  • Respect for sovereignty means to not allow unconstitutional action and coup d'états, the removal of legitimate power.

    Source: www.cbsnews.com
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