The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is… — 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… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that being a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures 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
[I]t is more convenient to prevent the passage of a law, than to declare it void after it has passed. — 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
The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In suits at common law, trial by jury in civil cases is as essential to secure the liberty of the people as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We are free today substantially, but the day will come when our Republic will be an impossibility. It will be an impossibility… — 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
Every new regulation concerning commerce or revenue; or in any manner affecting the value of the different species of property, presents a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Equal laws protecting equal rights…the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country. — 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
Measures should be enacted which, without violating the rights of property, would reduce extreme wealth towards a state of mediocrity, and raise… — 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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