But with new laws, a charge for retail theft can result in a deportation. Because Wisconsin allows 17 year olds to be charged as adults, that means a prosecutor has the power to make a child deportable for grabbing a candy bar off the shelves.

The defense bar is desperately trying to avoid charging and convictions that will lead to deportation for minor crimes. Sometimes prosecutors budge.

sometimes disseminate among the people themselves, and which, though they speedily give place to better information, and more deliberate reflection, have a tendency, in the meantime, to occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community."

"This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures,

"there is no liberty, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers."

"In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself."

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government."