The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone, and that it will not depend merely on… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — 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
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example and France has followed it, of charters… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased, as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the legislature, as well as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Toleration is not the opposite of intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well… — 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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