Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,… — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To the Baptist Churches on Neal's Greek on Black Creek, North Carolina I have received, fellow-citizens, your address, approving my objection to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is not a just government where arbitrary restrictions, exemptions, and monopolies deny to part of its citizens that free use of… — 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
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — 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
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it… — 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
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