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Degrees Quotes by James Madison
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- It degrades from the equal rank of Citizens all those whose opinions in Religion do not bend to those of the Legislative authority. Distant as…
- 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…
- But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of…
- Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
- From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
- It is a misfortune incident to republican government, though in a less degree than to other governments, that those who administer it, may forget their…
- [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…
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by those who were…
- The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests.…
- To consider the degree of concord which ultimately prevailed as less than a miracle.
- There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.
- In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
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