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
The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single… — 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
I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they… — James Madison Copy Share Image
That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables 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