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Departments Quotes by James Madison
- 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…
- As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- [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…
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- [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…
- 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…
- In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to…
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