Effects Quotes by James Madison

13 Effects quotes by James Madison

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The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a…

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Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the…

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The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to…

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The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

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Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,…

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As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none…

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Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

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... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect…

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[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than…

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But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,…

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What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution…

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The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret…

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To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to…

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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…

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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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It is certain that every class is interested in [educational] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country…

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Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…

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The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

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The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.

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They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass…

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“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded…

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Although all men are born free, slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised;…

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“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government…

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The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion…

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