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Representative Quotes by James Madison
- The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of…
- Reason, on the contrary, assures us, that as in so great a number, a fit representative would be most likely to be found, so the…
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- Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy. — Robert Bork
- Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection of faith… — Shadia Drury
- If there have been those who doubted whether a confederated representative democracy were a government competent to the wise and orderly management… — John Quincy Adams
- The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For to appreciate… — Clive Bell
- The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by… — Herbert Spencer
- The genuine Guru is God's representative and he speaks about God and nothing else. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
- The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison
- I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country.… — Thomas Jefferson