No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done. — 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
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
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
As to the permanent interest of individuals in the aggregated interests of the community, and in the proverbial maxim, that honesty is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery… — 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… — 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
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
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our… — 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 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
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
Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government… — 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
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he delegation of the government, in [a republic], to a small number of citizens elected by the rest . . . [is]… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a… — 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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