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Question Quotes by James Madison
- It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens…
- 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…
- The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other…
- Every word decides a question between power and liberty.
- In proportion to the value of this revolution; in proportion to the importance of instruments, every word of which decides a question between power and…
- In no part of the Constitution is more wisdom to be found than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace to…
- Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever,…
- The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.
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