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Executives Quotes by James Madison
- War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement
- The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone…
- 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…
- Experience has instructed us that no skill in the science of government has yet been able to discriminate and define, with sufficient certainty, its three…
- The danger from legislative usurpations, which, by assembling all power in the same hands, must lead to the same tyranny as is threatened by executive…
- If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will…
- It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
- 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…
- A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or…
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