The HyperBlogCafe » James Madison http://www.hyperblogcafe.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:31:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 If Men Were Angels No Government Would Be Necessary http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-men-were-angels-no-government-would-be-necessary/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-men-were-angels-no-government-would-be-necessary/#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 22:49:03 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=15577 “If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government.”

- James Madison (Federalist Papers #51)

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-men-were-angels-no-government-would-be-necessary/feed/ 3 There Are Two Methods Of Curing The Mischiefs Of Faction http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/there-are-two-methods-of-curing-the-mischiefs-of-faction/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/there-are-two-methods-of-curing-the-mischiefs-of-faction/#comments Sun, 27 Mar 2011 02:37:15 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=14649 ‎”There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects.”

- James Madison (Federalist Papers #10)

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/there-are-two-methods-of-curing-the-mischiefs-of-faction/feed/ 0 The Executive Is The Branch Of Power Most Interested In War http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-executive-is-the-branch-of-power-most-interested-in-war/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-executive-is-the-branch-of-power-most-interested-in-war/#comments Tue, 22 Mar 2011 05:55:07 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=14550 “The constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care vested the question of war in the legislature.”

- James Madison

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-executive-is-the-branch-of-power-most-interested-in-war/feed/ 4 The Accumulation Of All Powers http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-accumulation-of-all-powers/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-accumulation-of-all-powers/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:31:08 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=14139 “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, 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 (Federalist Papers #47)

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-accumulation-of-all-powers/feed/ 1 The Powers Delegated Are Few And Defined http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-powers-delegated-are-few-and-defined/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-powers-delegated-are-few-and-defined/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:44:30 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=11982 “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.”

- James Madison (Federalist Papers #45)

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-powers-delegated-are-few-and-defined/feed/ 0 The Public Good Is Disregarded In The Conflicts Of Rival Parties http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-public-good-is-disregarded-in-the-conflicts-of-rival-parties/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-public-good-is-disregarded-in-the-conflicts-of-rival-parties/#comments Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:54:57 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=11172 “Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”

- James Madison (Federalist Papers #10)

]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/the-public-good-is-disregarded-in-the-conflicts-of-rival-parties/feed/ 4 With Respect To The Two Words General Welfare http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/with-respect-to-the-two-words-general-welfare/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/with-respect-to-the-two-words-general-welfare/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:44:50 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=8899 “With respect to the two words ‘general welfare,’ I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.” 
 
- James Madison
 
]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/with-respect-to-the-two-words-general-welfare/feed/ 6 Since The General Civilization Of Mankind http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/since-the-general-civilization-of-mankind/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/since-the-general-civilization-of-mankind/#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:15:41 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=8278 “Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations.”
 
- James Madison
 
]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/since-the-general-civilization-of-mankind/feed/ 4 If Congress Can Employ Money Indefinitely http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-congress-can-employ-money-indefinitely/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-congress-can-employ-money-indefinitely/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:34:08 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=8225 “If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare, they may take the care of religion into their own hands; they may appoint teachers in every State, county and parish and pay them out of their public treasury; they may take into their own hands the education of children, establishing in like manner schools throughout the Union; they may assume the provision of the poor; they may undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads; in short, every thing, from the highest object of state legislation down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress… Were the power of Congress to be established in the latitude contended for, it would subvert the very foundations, and transmute the very nature of the limited Government established by the people of America.”
 
- James Madison
 
]]> http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/if-congress-can-employ-money-indefinitely/feed/ 4 History Records That The Money Changers http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/history-records-that-the-money-changers/ http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/history-records-that-the-money-changers/#comments Sat, 01 Aug 2009 10:55:11 +0000 markross http://www.hyperblogcafe.com/?p=8186 “History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance.”
 
 - James Madison

 

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