“There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To provide employment for the poor, and support for the indigent, is among the primary, and, at the same time, not least… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the… — 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