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Necessary Quotes by James Madison
- It will be remembered, that a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles is solemnly enjoined by most of the state constitutions, and particularly by our own,…
- As the people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of…
- It is in vain to oppose constitutional barriers to the impulse of self-preservation. It is worse than in vain; because it plants in the Constitution…
- Experience assures us, that the efficacy of the provision has been greatly over-rated; and that some more adequate defense is indispensably necessary for the more…
- Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be…
- 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].…
- The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the…
- Attempts to enforce by legal sanctions, acts obnoxious to so great a proportion of Citizens, tend to enervate the laws in general, and to slacken…
- What is to be the consequence, in case the Congress shall misconstrue this part [the necessary and proper clause] of the Constitution and exercise powers…
- [T]he great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department consists in giving to those who administer each department the…
- To what expedient then shall we finally resort, for maintaining in practice the necessary partition of power among the several departments, as laid down in…
- As the war was just in its origin and necessary and noble in its objects, we can reflect with a proud satisfaction that in carrying…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar…
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were…
- A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be…
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
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