Amendments Quote by James Madison

The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both.

— James Madison

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own…

— James Madison

It is to be the assent and ratification of the several States, derived from the supreme authority in each State, the authority of the…

— James Madison

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them…

— Alexander Hamilton

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is,…

— John C. Calhoun

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that…

— Thomas Paine

A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited,…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves…

— James Madison

Federalism is an intrinsic part of our constitutional set-up.

— Naveen Patnaik

The particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that…

— John Marshall

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state,…

— Aristotle

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of…

— James Madison