The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority. — 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
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit… — 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 primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor. — 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
Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights,… — 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
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
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
Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — 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
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 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
...Freedom arises from the multiplicity of sects, which prevades America and which is the best and only security for religious liberty in… — 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
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
“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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