The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right… — 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
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
At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them… — 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
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of… — 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
No man will subject himself to the ridicule of pretending that any natural connection subsists between the sun or the seasons, and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational… — 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
Whatever may be the judgement pronounced on the competency of the architects of the Constitution, or whatever may be the destiny of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[The human mind] finds more facility in assenting to the self-existence of an invisible cause possessing infinite power, wisdom, and goodness, than… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public… — 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
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly… — 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
“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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