The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A certain degree of preparation for war . . . affords also the best security for the continuance of peace. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the people of the United States enjoy the great merit of having established a system of Government on the basis of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Notwithstanding the security for future repose which the United States ought to find in their love of peace and their constant respect… — 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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