Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being 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
If the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in… — 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
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
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — 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
“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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