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Causes Quotes by James Madison
- The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according…
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in…
- If justice, good faith, honor, gratitude and all the other qualities which enoble the character of a nation, and fulfill the ends of Government be…
- But the mild voice of reason, pleading the cause of an enlarged and permanent interest, is but too often drowned, before public bodies as well…
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment....
- I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than…
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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