Tuesday, January 12, 2010

I heart the federalists

How about that James Madison! What a writer, huh?

Full disclosure: I haven't read the Federalist Papers before, so taking Constitutional Law this semester promises to be a MAJOR thrill from start to finish.

An initial taste of mind-destroying eloquence: "As far as laws are necessary to mark with precision the duties of those who are to obey them, and to take from those who are to administer them a discretion which might be abused, their number is the price of liberty."

BAM. Could you write a more perfect sentence about the balance between regulation and individual liberty?? I dare you.

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