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No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.
James Madison
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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.
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Because we hold it for 'a fundamental and undeniable truth', that religion or 'the duty which we owe to our Creator' and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence.
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I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
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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.
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I flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
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Thus the right of nullification meant by Mr. Jefferson is the natural right, which all admit to be a remedy against insupportable oppression.
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Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.
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If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?
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The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
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A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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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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