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Alexander
Hamilton
Signer of the
Federal Constitution, co-author of the Federalist
Papers, member of the Continental Congress.
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Alexander Hamilton
"The law…dictated by God himself
is, of course, superior in obligation to any other.
It is binding over all the globe, in all countries,
an at all times. No human laws are of any validity
if contrary to this."
(Source: Alexander Hamilton, The
Papers of Alexander Hamilton, Harold C. Syrett, editor
( New York: Columbia University Press, 1961), Vol.I,p.87,
February 23,1775, quoting William Blackstone, Commentaries
on the Laws of England ( Philadelphia: Robert Bell,1771),
Vol. I, p. 41.)
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