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Who are to be the objects of popular choice? Every citizen whose merit may recommend him to the esteem and confidence of his country.
James Madison
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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These considerations and many others that might be mentioned prove, and experience confirms it, that artisans and manufacturers will commonly be disposed to bestow their votes on merchants.
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Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
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The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.
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Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.
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Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.
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