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Constitutional Quotes by James Madison
- The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution…
- It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result…
- 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…
- there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
- [I]n the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- Besides the danger of a direct mixture of religion and civil government, there is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- [A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a…
- If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of…
- The citizens of the United States have peculiar motives to support the energy of their constitutional charters.
- ... large and permanent military establishments ... are forbidden by the principles of free government, and against the necessity of which the militia were meant…
- The danger of disturbing the public tranquillity by interesting too strongly the public passions, is a still more serious objection against a frequent reference of…
- The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
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