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Might Quotes by James Madison
- Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised…
- On any other hypothesis, the delegation of judicial power would annul the authority delegating it; and the concurrence of this department with the others in…
- This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both…
- 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…
- Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.
- These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their…
- I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].…
- there ought always to be a constitutional method of giving efficacy to constitutional provisions. What for instance would avail restrictions on the authority of the…
- That this liberty [of the press] is often carried to excess; that it has sometimes degenerated into licentiousness, is seen and lamented, but the remedy…
- In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution the Senate, it will be proper to take a view of the…
- May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this…
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