...of the legislature, as by the lawless combinations of unauthorized individuals ; while these men are the advocates for expelling a large number of their...pleasure by general descriptions, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy ; if it...

...dictate of natural justice, and a fundamental principle of law and liberty. Nothing is more common than for a free people, in times of heat and violence,...disqualification, disfranchisement, and banishment, by Acts of Legislature. The dangerous consequences of this power are manifest. If the Legislature can disfranchise...

...dictate of natural justice, and a fundamental principle of law and liberty. Nothing is more common than for a free people, in times of heat and violence,...disqualification, disfranchisement, and banishment, by Acts of Legislature. The dangerous consequences of this power are manifest. If the Legislature can disfranchise...

...Hamilton proceeds to show the dangers of such acts of arbitrary power. "Nothing is more common," he says, "than for a free people, in times of heat and violence,...pleasure, by general descriptions, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy; if it may...

...proceeds to show the dangers of such acts of arbitrary power. "Nothing is more common," he says, " than for a free people, in times of heat and violence,...pleasure, by general descriptions, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy; if it may...

...without the judgment of their peers and contrary to the law of the land. . . . Nothing is more common, than for a free people in times of heat and violence...fatal to themselves. Of this kind is the doctrine of disfranchisement, disqualification, and punishments by acts of the legislature. The dangerous consequences...

...the lawless combinations of unauthorized individuals ; while these men are the advocates forexpelling a large number of their fellow-citizens unheard, untried...pleasure by general descriptions, it may soon confine all the votes to a small number of partisans, and establish an aristocracy or an oligarchy ; if it...

...instead of being the production of a century ago. The General says: "Nothing is more common than (or a free people in times of heat and violence to gratify...fatal to themselves. Of this kind is the doctrine of disfranchisement, disqualification and punishments by acts of the Legislature. The dangerous consequences...

...him, he finally succeeded in modifying the one and changing the other. "Nothing is more common," he observed, "than for a free people in times of heat...violence to gratify momentary passions by letting in principles and precedents which afterwards prove fatal to themselves. If the Legislature can disfranchise...

...the close of the Revolutionary War concerning which Alexander Hamilton said: "Nothing is more common than for a free people in times of heat and violence...into the government principles and precedents which afterward prove fatal to themselves. Of this kind is the doctrine of disqualification, disfranchisement,...