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Roots of Liberty is designed to promote greater understanding of America's founding principles.

"A spirit of faction...will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses..."

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "A spirit of faction...will often hurry the persons of whom they were composed into improprieties and excesses..."

"Government implies the power of making laws" -Federalist Paper #15

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "Government implies the power of making laws"
-Federalist Paper #15

"[America] reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe" -Federalist Paper 14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "[America] reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe"
-Federalist Paper 14

"Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course" -Federalist Paper 14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course"
-Federalist Paper 14

"Posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre"

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "Posterity will be indebted for the possession, and the world for the example of the numerous innovations displayed on the American theatre"

"America united with a handful of troops exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited" -Federalist Paper 14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "America united with a handful of troops exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited"
-Federalist Paper 14

"The general government's jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all members of the republic..." -FedPaper#14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "The general government's jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all members of the republic..."
-FedPaper#14

"It is to be remembered that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws" -FedPaper#14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "It is to be remembered that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws"
-FedPaper#14

"A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region." -Federalist Paper #14

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "A democracy, consequently, will be confined to a small spot. A republic may be extended over a large region."
-Federalist Paper #14

It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it...

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. It is, that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in person; in a republic, they assemble and administer it...

"We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves..."

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "We have seen the necessity of the Union, as our bulwark against foreign danger, as the conservator of peace among ourselves..."

"The supposition that each confederacy into which the States would be likely to be divided would require a government ..."

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "The supposition that each confederacy into which the States would be likely to be divided would require a government ..."

"Nothing can be more evident than that the 13 States will be able to support a national government better than one half or any number less"

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "Nothing can be more evident than that the 13 States will be able to support a national government better than one half or any number less"

"The separation of States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is too extravagant and too replete with danger to have advocates"

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "The separation of States into thirteen unconnected sovereignties is  too extravagant and too replete with danger to have advocates"

"If the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support" -Federalist Paper #13

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "If the States are united under one government, there will be but one national civil list to support"
-Federalist Paper #13

"The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much less to be drawn from the pockets of people"

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "The money saved from one object may be usefully applied to another, and there will be so much less to be drawn from the pockets of people"

"Civil power, properly organized and exerted, is capable of diffusing its force to a very great extent" -Federalist Paper #13

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "Civil power, properly organized and exerted, is capable of diffusing its force to a very great extent"
-Federalist Paper #13

"But public and private distress will...unite in deploring the infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion." -Federalist Paper #12

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "But public and private distress will...unite in deploring the infatuation of those counsels which led to disunion."
-Federalist Paper #12

"A nation cannot long exist without revenues." -Federalist Paper #12

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "A nation cannot long exist without revenues."
-Federalist Paper #12

"The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws." -Federalist Paper #12

RootsofLiberty1's tweet image. "The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws."
-Federalist Paper #12

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