The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will… — 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
The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The free system of government we have established is so congenial with reason, with common sense, and with a universal feeling, that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If we resort for a criterion to the different principles on which different forms of government are established, we may define a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I, sir, have always conceived - I believe those who proposed the constitution conceived,and it is still more fully known, and more… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — 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
Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation… Notwithstanding the military establishments… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The ultimate authority resides in the people, and that if the federal government got too powerful and overstepped its authority, then the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete… — James Madison Copy Share Image
History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The smaller the number and the more permanent and conspicuous the station of men in power, the stronger must be the interest… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
On the distinctive principles of the Government ... of the U. States, the best guides are to be found in ... The… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Government is instituted to protect property of every sort; as well that which lies in the various rights of individuals, as that… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole;… — 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
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;… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion… — James Madison Copy Share Image
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