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“Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.”

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Gail Collins

Gail Collins is an American journalist and author, born on November 25, 1945. She is renowned for her column at The New York Times, where she writes on politics and culture. Collins has also penned several books on American history and politics, making significant contributions to the field of journalism. more

“We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced by future contrivances; and both by that and a common knowledge of human affairs, that it would nourish unceasing animosities, and not improbably terminate in serious interruptions of the public tranquility.”

Humans May States Government Would Be Past Common Practice Serious Taxes Affair Goods Tranquility Assured Interruptions Animosity Charging Past Experiences Common Knowledge High Taxes

Author:James Madison

“At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government . . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.”

Firsts Seems Government Might Force Views Practice Cases Theory Republican Lessons Majority Reasoning Minorities Squares Qualified

Book:The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more feeble, against the more powerful members of the government.”

Has Beens Government Powerful Members Defense Adequate Provision Efficacy

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

“Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be absolutely necessary for the purpose, does not appear to be susceptible of any precise calculation; and must depend on a variety of circumstances with which it may be connected. Let us consult experience, the guide that ought always to be followed, whenever it can be found.”

Source: The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution

“Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three great provinces the legislative, executive, and judiciary; or even the privileges and powers of the different legislative branches.”

Different Government Able Three Skills Privilege Certainty Sufficient Branches Executives Provinces Judiciary Legislative Branch

Book:The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

Source: The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788

“It will be forgotten, on the one hand, that jealousy is the usual concomitant of violent love, and that the noble enthusiasm of liberty is too apt to be infected with a spirit of narrow and illiberal distrust. On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten, that the vigour of government is essential to the security of liberty.”

Hands Government Spirit Liberty Security Essentials Forgotten Noble Violent Enthusiasm Usual Distrust

Book:The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States. A Collection of Essays

Source: The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States. A Collection of Essays

“The means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is expected ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.”

Mean Persons Ends Government Ought Expected Agency Attainment

Book:The Federalist

Source: The Federalist

“It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.”

Government Ought Execution

Book:The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

Source: The Federalist Papers and the Constitution of the United States: The Principles of the American Government

“If we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities.”

Ifs Giving States Government Energy Projects Capacity Unions Vain Collectives Abandon Earnest Duration

Book:The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

Source: The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States

“A government, the constitution of which renders it unfit to be trusted with all the powers which a free people ought to delegate to any government, would be an unsafe and improper depositary of the NATIONAL INTERESTS.”

People Government Would Be Interest Ought Constitution Trusted Delegates Unsafe National Interests

Book:The federalist papers

Source: The federalist papers

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