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Improper Quotes by James Madison
- To refer the power in question to the clause "to provide for the common defense and general welfare" would be contrary to the established and…
- 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…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- 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…
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- But in the long term, I think it is improper to limit your future. — Roy Moore
- It has always irked me as improper that there are still so many people for whom the sky is no more than… — M.C. Escher