[In the case of] dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have… — 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
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
The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and… — James Madison Copy Share Image
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason,… — 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
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The apportionment of taxes on the various descriptions of property is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet… — 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
No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom. — 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
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause; because his interest would certainly bias his judgment, and, not… — 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
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
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
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
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion...[has] divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed… — 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
A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the… — 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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