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Federalism Quotes by James Madison
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of a system partly…
- 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…
- Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary…
- 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…
- I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks…
- The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and…
- I am unable to conceive that the state legislatures which must feel so many motives to watch, and which possess so many means of counteracting…
- The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving…
- 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…
- Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No…
- That useful alterations will be suggested by experience, could not but be foreseen . . . . It moreover equally enables the general and state…
- The proposed constitution, therefore, even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists, is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution;…
- 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…
- The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times…
More Federalism Quotes
- ...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is… — Unknown Author
- While the constitution continues to be read, and its principles known, the states, must, by every rational man, be considered as essential… — Alexander Hamilton
- It becomes all therefore who are friends of a Government based on free principles to reflect, that by denying the possibility of… — James Madison
- This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost… — Alexander Hamilton
- The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for… — Alexander Hamilton
- [T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore . . . never… — Thomas Jefferson
- So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state… — Joseph Story
- The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect… — Joseph Story