Tag Archives: James Madison

First Principles: Protection of Person and Property Are the Two Proper Aims of Government

Posted on December 24, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Power Should Be Restrained From Encroaching

Posted on December 23, 2017 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, Federalist No. 48, 1788

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First Principles: Useful Law Needs To Be Able To Be Easily Read and Understood

Posted on December 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Eyes of the World Cause the US To Be A Better Nation

Posted on November 30, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The eyes of the world being thus on our Country, it is put the more on its good behavior, and under the greater obligation also, to do justice to the Tree of Liberty by an exhibition of the fine fruits … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Ways and Means Should Balance Our Promises

Posted on November 16, 2017 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 in a … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Know the Difference Between Opinions and Facts

Posted on November 14, 2017 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: For A Government To Be Respected, It Must Be Respectable

Posted on November 7, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” — James Madison, in Federalist 62

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First Principles: The Accumulation of Power Into Few Hands Leads To Tyranny

Posted on November 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The accumulation of all powers … in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison (1788) in Federalist Paper, No. 47 This … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Bill of Rights Is To Prevent the Encroachment of the Federal Government On Private Rights

Posted on October 17, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Truest Civility Requires Following God’s Ways

Posted on October 3, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.” —James Madison (1785) I won’t sugar coat this one. The lack of adherence to God’s … Continue reading →

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