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Idea Quotes by James Madison
- The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
- There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that…
- Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us…
- 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…
- To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.
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