Department Quotes by James Madison
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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…
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![“[A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a tyrannical concentration of all the powers of government in the same hands.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/733/james-madison-373_concentration_a-mere-demarcation-on-parchment-of-the-c_428771.png)
![“[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachment of the others.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c8/james-madison-373_concentration_t-he-great-security-against-a-gradual-co_2034701.jpg)
![“[R]efusing or not refusing to execute a law to stamp it with its final character . . . makes the Judiciary department paramount in fact to the Legislature, which was never intended and can never be proper.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b14/james-madison-373_character_r-efusing-or-not-refusing-to-execute-a-l_2378388.png)
![“[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a20/james-madison-373_connected_i-n-the-next-place-to-show-that-unless-t_2940160.jpg)
![“What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers not warranted by its true meaning, I answer the same as if they should misconstrue or enlarge any other power vested in them . . . the success…” quote by James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/james-madison-373_answers_what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-th_1564500.png)
