A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

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We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? ― Joseph Stalin

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Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.― George Orwell

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Almost every man we meet requires some civility; requires to be humored; - he has some fame, some talent, some whim of religion or philanthropy in his head that is not to be questioned, and which spoils all conversation with him. But a friend is a sane man who exercises not my ingenuity, but me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. ― Joseph Stalin

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Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

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A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall. — Serena Williams

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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. ― Charlotte Brontë

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Quantity has a quality all its own. ― Joseph Stalin

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