How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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
The governments of Europe are afraid to trust the people with arms. If they did, the people would certainly shake off the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A government that does not trust it's law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is itself unworthy of trust. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing… — James Madison Copy Share Image
if the people are to be our governors, they must arm themselves with knowledge. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“... 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 Image
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