Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction… — 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
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and… — 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
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
In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I do not conceive that power is given to the President and Senate to dismember the empire, or to alienate any great,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There never was an assembly of men, charged with a great and arduous trust, who were more pure in their motives, or… — James Madison Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In civilized communities, property as well as personal rights is an essential object of the laws, which encourage industry by securing the… — 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
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
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.… — 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
The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary 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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