---
title: "13 Effects Quotes By James Madison"
description: "13 Effects quotes by James Madison. Plus more from James Madison and more Effects sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png"
---

> [Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not-expressly-prohibited-by-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png)

> [The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy-is-to-refine-and-enlarge-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/james-madison-373_body_the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy_47129.png)

> [The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy-are-still-more-calamitous-it/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/james-madison-373_blessing_the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy_1041390.png)

> [The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is-that-the-causes-of-faction/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/james-madison-373_causes_the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is_226349.png)

> [As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-superior-in-obligation-to-all/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/james-madison-373_bounds_as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-s_383364.png)

> [Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-acts-obnoxious-to-so-great-a/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/james-madison-373_authority_attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-a_1655368.png)

> [... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-and-closely-watch-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b61/james-madison-373_able_the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-an_921272.png)

> [ \[The human mind\] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-assenting-to-the-self-existence/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/james-madison-373_attributes_the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-as_1808198.jpg)

> [But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is-that-diminution-of/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/james-madison-373_attachment_but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is_2789895.jpg)

> [Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incorporated-church-an-authority/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/james-madison-373_agency_because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incor_645949.png)

> [To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-clause-to-provide-for-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/james-madison-373_careful_to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-cl_2196708.png)

> [ What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part \[the necessary and proper clause\] of the Constitution… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-the-congress-shall-misconstrue/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/james-madison-373_answers_what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-th_1564500.png)

> [The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of-the-fluctuating-policy-which/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/james-madison-373_america_the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of_331773.jpg)

## Other authors on Effects

## More by James Madison

> [“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/knowledge-will-forever-govern-ignorance-and-a-people-who-mean-to-be/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/rulers-who-wished-to-subvert-the-public-liberty-may-have-found-an/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-powers-delegated-by-the-proposed-constitution-to-the-federal/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/how-could-a-readiness-for-war-in-time-of-peace-be-safely-prohibited/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-accumulation-of-all-powers-legislative-executive-and-judiciary-in/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [ It is certain that every class is interested in \[educational\] establishments which give to the human mind its highest improvements, and to every Country… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/it-is-certain-that-every-class-is-interested-in-educational/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential, that such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/since-it-is-impossible-for-the-people-spontaneously-and-universally/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-definition-of-the-right-of-suffrage-is-very-justly-regarded-as-a/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-future-and-success-of-america-is-not-in-this-constitution-but-in/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/they-can-make-no-law-which-will-not-have-its-full-operation-on/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy-is-to-refine-and-enlarge-the/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to be guarded…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/but-besides-the-danger-of-a-direct-mixture-of-religion-civil/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [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;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/although-all-men-are-born-free-slavery-has-been-the-general-lot-of/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/it-may-be-a-reflection-on-human-nature-that-such-devices-should-be/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

> [The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-better-proof-of-reverence-for-that-holy-name-would-be-not-to/)

[James Madison](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-madison/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/#itemlist",
            "name": "13 Effects Quotes By James Madison",
            "numberOfItems": 13,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not-expressly-prohibited-by-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation…",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy-is-to-refine-and-enlarge-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/james-madison-373_body_the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy_47129.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/james-madison-373_body_the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy_47129.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e07/james-madison-373_body_the-effect-of-a-representative-democracy_47129.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy-are-still-more-calamitous-it/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/james-madison-373_blessing_the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy_1041390.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/james-madison-373_blessing_the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy_1041390.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0b/james-madison-373_blessing_the-internal-effects-of-a-mutable-policy_1041390.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is-that-the-causes-of-faction/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/james-madison-373_causes_the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is_226349.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/james-madison-373_causes_the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is_226349.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cd/james-madison-373_causes_the-inference-to-which-we-are-brought-is_226349.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more sacred, because they are bound, on the conscience by the religious sanctions of an oath. As metes and bounds of government, they transcend all other land-marks, because every public usurpation is an encroachment on the private right, not of one, but of all.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-superior-in-obligation-to-all/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/james-madison-373_bounds_as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-s_383364.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/james-madison-373_bounds_as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-s_383364.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/561/james-madison-373_bounds_as-compacts-charters-of-government-are-s_383364.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 6,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken the bands of Society. If it be difficult to execute any law which is not generally deemed necessary or salutary, what must be the case, where it is deemed invalid and dangerous? And what may be the effect of so striking an example of impotency in the Government, on its general authority?",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-acts-obnoxious-to-so-great-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/james-madison-373_authority_attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-a_1655368.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/james-madison-373_authority_attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-a_1655368.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/720/james-madison-373_authority_attempts-to-enforce-by-legal-sanctions-a_1655368.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 7,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-and-closely-watch-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b61/james-madison-373_able_the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-an_921272.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b61/james-madison-373_able_the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-an_921272.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b61/james-madison-373_able_the-state-legislatures-will-jealously-an_921272.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 8,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than in the self-existence of the universe, visibly destitute of these attributes, and which may be the effect of them.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-assenting-to-the-self-existence/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/james-madison-373_attributes_the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-as_1808198.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/james-madison-373_attributes_the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-as_1808198.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f4b/james-madison-373_attributes_the-human-mind-finds-more-facility-in-as_1808198.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 9,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political system which betrays so many marks of infirmity, and disappoints so many of their flattering hopes. No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected, without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is-that-diminution-of/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/james-madison-373_attachment_but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is_2789895.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/james-madison-373_attachment_but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is_2789895.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ed/james-madison-373_attachment_but-the-most-deplorable-effect-of-all-is_2789895.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 10,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incorporated-church-an-authority/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/james-madison-373_agency_because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incor_645949.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/james-madison-373_agency_because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incor_645949.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8b9/james-madison-373_agency_because-the-bill-vests-in-the-said-incor_645949.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 11,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "To refer the power in question to the clause \"to provide for the common defense and general welfare\" would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them, the terms \"common defense and general welfare\" embracing every object and act within the purview of a legislative trust.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-clause-to-provide-for-the/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/james-madison-373_careful_to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-cl_2196708.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/james-madison-373_careful_to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-cl_2196708.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/james-madison-373_careful_to-refer-the-power-in-question-to-the-cl_2196708.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“To refer the power in question to the clause \"to provide for the common defense and general welfare\" would…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 12,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "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 of the usurpation will depend on the executive and judiciary departments, which are to expound and give effect to the legislative acts; and in a last resort a remedy must be obtained from the people, who can by the elections of more faithful representatives, annul the acts of the usurpers.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-the-congress-shall-misconstrue/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/james-madison-373_answers_what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-th_1564500.png",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/james-madison-373_answers_what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-th_1564500.png",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/80d/james-madison-373_answers_what-is-to-be-the-consequence-in-case-th_1564500.png",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 13,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "James Madison"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-madison/the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of-the-fluctuating-policy-which/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/james-madison-373_america_the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of_331773.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/james-madison-373_america_the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of_331773.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/264/james-madison-373_america_the-sober-people-of-america-are-weary-of_331773.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They…” — James Madison",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/",
            "name": "Effects Quotes by James Madison",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/901/james-madison-373_constitution_is-there-a-legislative-power-in-fact-not_2718831.png"
            },
            "description": "13 Effects quotes by James Madison. Plus more from James Madison and more Effects sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Effects",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "James Madison",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/effects/james-madison/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```