Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government. — James Madison Copy Share Image
I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America. — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality? — James Madison Copy Share Image
The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles. — 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
Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' 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
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And may I not be allowed to ... read in the character of the American people, in their devotion to true liberty… — James Madison Copy Share Image
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The general government is proscribed from the interfering, in any manner whatsoever, in matters respecting religion; and it may be thought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The danger of silent accumulations & encroachments by Ecclesiastical Bodies have not sufficiently engaged attention in the U.S. [...] Besides the danger… — 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
Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education… — James Madison Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“It may not be easy, in every possible case, to trace the line of separation between the rights of religion and the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Every new & successful example therefore of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters , is of importance. And I have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Every new and successful example, therefore, of a perfect separation between the ecclesiastical and civil matters, is of importance; and I have… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“... But besides the danger of a direct mixture of Religion & civil Government , there is an evil which ought to… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Christianity] existed and flourishes, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them. — James Madison Copy Share Image
Every new and successful example of a perfect separation between ecclesiastical and civil matters is of importance. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States. — James Madison Copy Share Image
In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people. — James Madison Copy Share Image
[Restraints on the press] in all ages, have debauched morals, depressed liberty, shackled religion, supported despotism, and deluged the scaffold with blood. — James Madison Copy Share Image
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprize, every expanded prospect.” — 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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