Since it is impossible for the people spontaneously and universally, to move in concert towards their object; and it is therefore essential,… — 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
All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the… — 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
No distinction seems to be more obvious than that between spiritual and temporal matters. Yet whenever they have been made objects of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can… — 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
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of… — 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
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The best reason to be assigned, in this case, for not having made the Constitution more free from a charge of uncertainty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The liberal appropriations made by the legislature of Kentucky for a general system of education cannot be too much applauded . .… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[It] is indispensable that some provision should be made for defending the Community agst [against] the incapicity, negligence or perfidy of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which… — 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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