These examples, though as unfit for the imitation, as they are repugnant to the genius of America, are notwithstanding . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That the foundation of our national policy should be laid in private morality. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The house of representatives ... can make no law, which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against…Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example . . . of charters of power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and… — 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
“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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