The Federal Constitution forms a happy combination in this respect; the great and aggregate interests being referred to the national, the local… — 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
Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other Religions, may establish with the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A local spirit will infallibly prevail much more in the members of Congress than a national spirit will prevail in the legislatures… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The number of individuals employed under the Constitution of the United States will be much smaller than the number employed under the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates… — James Madison Copy Share Image
If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a… — 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
The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of… — 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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