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Certain Quotes by James Madison
- No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of…
- In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and…
- In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to…
- I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive…
- It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect…
- [Regarding legislative assemblies,] the number ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a…
- It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and…
- It is not certain that with this aid alone [possession of arms], they would not be able to shake off their yokes. But were the…
- There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
- But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a political…
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
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