The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the… — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end… — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The express authority of the people alone could give validity to the Constitution. — James Madison Copy Share Image
...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local… — 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
Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I consider the difference between a system founded on the legislatures only, and one founded on the people, to be the true… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war… — 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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