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 invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I regret, as much as any member, the unavoidable weight and duration of the burdens to be imposed; having never been a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ. — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Bills of attainder, ex-post facto laws and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Because the bill in reserving a certain parcel of land in the United States for the use of said Baptist Church comprises… — 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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