A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Americans need not fear the federal government because they enjoy the advantage of being armed, which you possess over the people of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective — James Madison Copy Share Image
I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The passions, therefore, not the reason, of the public would sit in judgment. But it is the reason, alone, of the public,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because finally, 'the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience' is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A… — James Madison Copy Share
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments… — James Madison Copy Share
How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments… — James Madison Copy Share
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,… — James Madison Copy Share
It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… — James Madison Copy Share
Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such… — James Madison Copy Share
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share
The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded. — James Madison Copy Share
They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass… — James Madison Copy Share
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body… — James Madison Copy Share
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded… — James Madison Copy Share
Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;… — James Madison Copy Share
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government… — James Madison Copy Share
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion… — James Madison Copy Share
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