Founding Issues
Arbitrary Power

  1. "There is a natural and necessary progression, from the extreme of anarchy to the extreme of tyranny; and arbitrary power is most easily established, on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness." - United States Founding Father, George Washington, "Maxims of Washington", John Frederick Schroeder, D.D., collector and arranger, 1854, p.20

  2. "The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and of public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality." - United States Founding Father, Signer of the Constitution, Penman of the Constitution, Gouverneur Morris, "Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year 1821", (New York: E. Bliss and E. White, 1821), p. 30, from ¡°An Inaugural Discourse Delivered Before the New York Historical Society by the Honorable Gouverneur Morris on September 4, 1816.¡±

  3. "The provision in the Constitution of the United States [concerning impeachment] ... holds out a deep and immediate responsibility as a check upon arbitrary power. They [Congress] must be presumed to be watchful of the interests, alive to the sympathies, and ready to redress the grievances of the people." - United States Supreme Court Justice, "Father of American Jurisprudence", considered the founder of Harvard Law School, Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States", (Boston: Hillard, Gray, and Company, 1833), Vol. II, p. 172, ¡́ 687.

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