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James Madison
Age: 85 †
Born: 1751
Born: March 16
Died: 1836
Died: June 28
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How a regulation so unjust in itself, so foreign to the authority of Congress, and so hurtful to the sale of public land, and smelling so strongly of an antiquated bigotry, could have received the countenance of a committee is truly a matter of astonishment.
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The power of taxing people and their property is essential to the very existence of government.
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The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people and the danger will be evidently greater where the whole legislative trust is lodged in the hands of one body of men, than where the concurrence of separate and dissimilar bodies is required in every public act.
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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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