James Madison
James Madison
James Madison, Jr.was a political theorist, American statesman, and the fourth President of the United States. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth16 March 1751
CityPort Conway, VA
CountryUnited States of America
political liberty politics
The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.
causes failing betray
A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.
war opportunity people
In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out offices, honors and emoluments is multiplied; and all the meaning of seducing the minds, are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The same malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the inequality of fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a state of war and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered by both. No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
were-meant-to-be purpose particular
For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?
government people liberty
... the State Legislatures will jealously and closely watch the operations of this Government, and be able to resist with more effect every assumption of power, than any other power on earth can do; and the greatest opponents to a Federal Government admit the State Legislatures to be sure guardians of the people's liberty.
government people republican
We have seen that the tendency of republican governments is to an aggrandizement of the legislative at the expense of the other departments. The appeals to the people, therefore, would usually be made by the executive and judiciary departments.
atheist character events
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
rights government office
[In government] the constant aim is to divide and arrange the several offices in such a manner as that each may be a check on the other-that the private interest of every individual may be a sentinel over the public rights.
pride spirit human-nature
Nor is any evidence to be found, either in History or Human Nature, that nations are to be bribed out of a spirit of encroachment and aggression, by humiliations which nourish their pride, or by concessions that extend their resources and power.
men color slavery
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
men ideas slavery
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
religious atheist faith-religion
[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
religious rights government
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
religious rights perfect
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.