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Majority Quotes by James Madison
- I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than…
- By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated…
- Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of…
- A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and there…
- Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.
- 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…
- At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that…
- The smaller the society, the fewer probably will be the distinct parties and interests composing it; the fewer the distinct parties and interests, the more…
- Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole…
- [In a democracy] a common passion or interest will, in almost every case , be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and…
- The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.
- The primary function of government is to protect the minority of the opulent from the majority of the poor.
- Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted…
- Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness…
- The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness…
- In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
- There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that…
- If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens…
- On a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority, trampling on the rights of the…
- Power must be in the hands of the wealth of the nation, those who have sympathy for property owners and their rights, and who understand…
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