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Several Quotes by James Madison
- 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 to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the people…
- I wish not to be regarded as an advocate for the particular organizations of the several state governments . . . they carry strong marks…
- In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to…
- The defect of power in the existing confederacy, to regulate the commerce between its several members is in the number of those which have been…
- I acknowledge, in the ordinary course of government, that the exposition of the laws and Constitution devolves upon the judicial. But I beg to know…
- [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…
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several…
- [A] mere demarcation on parchment of the constitutional limits of the several departments is not a sufficient guard against those encroachments which lead to a…
- The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government…
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
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