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
The Constitution expressly and exclusively vests in the Legislature the power of declaring a state of war [and] the power of raising… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I… — 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
The Constitution of the U.S. forbids everything like an establishment of a national religion. — James Madison Copy Share Image
A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of… — James Madison Copy Share Image
What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution… — 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 civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — 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
[T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer… — 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
[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
An alliance or coalition between Government and religion cannot be too carefully guarded against......Every new and successful example therefore of a PERFECT… — James Madison Copy Share Image
To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as… — James Madison Copy Share Image
[I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the… — 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
“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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