It is of great importance in a republic, not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers; but to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go by the great republican principle, that the people will have the virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any… — 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 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
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different… — 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
We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character. — 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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