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The American people are too well schooled in the duty and practice of submitting to the will of the majority to permit any serious uneasiness on that account

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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm . . . But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity.
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The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
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The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small number of citizens elected by the rest secondly, the greater number of citizens and greater sphere of country over which the latter may be extended.
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The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
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