Tag Archives: James Madison

First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, No Person Is Safe As To Opinion, Person, Faculties or Possessions

Posted on February 26, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)

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First Principles: Justice Is the End of Government and Civil Society Ever Pursued Until Liberty Is Lost

Posted on February 19, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.” – James Madison (1788) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Power Is of An Encroaching Nature and Must Be Restrained

Posted on February 8, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788)

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First Principles: United America Is Formidable To Foreign Ambition

Posted on January 30, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.” – James Madison (1787)

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First Principles: Nothing Is So Contagious As Opinion Formed In the Mind of Distrust

Posted on January 6, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is so contagious as opinion, especially on questions which, being susceptible of very different glosses, beget in the mind a distrust of itself.” – James Madison (1790)

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First Principles: Our Appropriations Should Equal Our Legislative Promises

Posted on January 4, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“There is not a more important and fundamental principle in legislation, than that the ways and means ought always to face the public engagements; that our appropriations should ever go hand in hand with our promises.” – James Madison (1790) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Government Is Made Safe Through the Virtue of the People

Posted on December 22, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks-no form of government can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Branches of Our Government Are Co-Equal

Posted on December 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“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 upon what principle it can be contended that any one department draws from the Constitution … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Stability In Government Is Essential To National Character

Posted on December 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society.” – James … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Power Is of An Encroaching Nature That Must Be Restrained

Posted on December 7, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” – James Madison (1788)

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