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• Un gobierno que descansa en la minoría es una aristocracia, no una República, y no podría estar seguro con una fuerza numérica y física en su contra, sin un ejército permanente, una prensa esclavizada y un populacho desarmado.

  James Madison

  Ejército, Armas, Gobierno

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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.

  James Madison

  Government, Ambitious, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.220

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• ¿No hay virtud entre nosotros? Si no la hay, estamos en una situación miserable. Ningún control teórico, ninguna forma de gobierno puede darnos seguridad. Suponer que cualquier forma de gobierno asegurará la libertad o la felicidad sin ninguna virtud en el pueblo, es una idea quimérica, si hay suficiente virtud e inteligencia en la comunidad, se ejercerá en la selección de estos hombres. De modo que no dependemos de su virtud, ni depositamos la confianza en nuestros gobernantes, sino en el pueblo que ha de elegirlos.

  James Madison

  Hombres, Ideas, Personas

  James Madison David B. Mattern (1997). "James Madison's "Advice to My Country"", p.24, University of Virginia Press

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• As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed.

  James Madison

  Exercise, Men, Long

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). "The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution", p.48, Coventry House Publishing.

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• Además de la ventaja de estar armados, que los estadounidenses poseen sobre el pueblo de casi cualquier otra nación, la existencia de gobiernos subordinados, a los que el pueblo está unido, y por los que se nombran los oficiales de la milicia, forma una barrera contra las empresas de la ambición, más insuperable que cualquiera que pueda admitir un simple gobierno de cualquier forma.

  James Madison

  Ambition, Simple, Government

  James Madison, John Jay (1847). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.192

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• Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

  James Madison

  Razón

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• It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

  James Madison

  Government, Abuse, Negative

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• A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.

  James Madison

  Imagination, Events, Visionaries

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be invariably maintained; but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are Tyrants. The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.

  James Madison

  Derechos, Gobierno, Legislación

  James Madison (1867). “1769-1793”, p.163

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• De todos los enemigos de la libertad pública, la guerra es quizás el más temible, porque comprende y desarrolla el germen de todos los demás.

  James Madison

  Miedo, Guerra, Enemigo

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• Un gobierno justo no necesita al clero ni a la Iglesia.

  James Madison

  Gobierno, Iglesia, Necesidades

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• Ese gobierno, bajo el cual los impuestos desiguales oprimen a una especie de propiedad y recompensan a otra, no ofrece una seguridad justa a la propiedad.

  James Madison

  Gobierno, Fiscalidad, Recompensas

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

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  People, Giving, Information

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• Se ha dicho que todo gobierno es un mal. Sería más apropiado decir que la necesidad de cualquier gobierno es una desgracia. Sin embargo, esta necesidad existe; y el problema a resolver no es qué forma de Gobierno es perfecta, sino cuál de las formas es menos imperfecta.

  James Madison

  Gobierno, Mal, Perfecto

  James Madison Ralph Ketcham, "Selected Writings of James Madison", Hackett Publishing.

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• The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

  James Madison

  President, Responsible, Persons

  James Madison (1999). "Escritos"

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• It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.

  James Madison

  Men, Able, Enlightened

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• La facultad de declarar la guerra, incluida la de juzgar las causas de la guerra, corresponde plena y exclusivamente al poder legislativo.

  James Madison

  Paz, guerra, juicio

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). "El Federalista: Sobre la Nueva Constitución, escrito en 1788", p.451

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• Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

  James Madison

  Law, Constitution, Should

  James Madison (1836). “The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution”, p.616

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• [T]he powers granted by the proposed Constitution are the gift of the people, and may be resumed by them when perverted to their oppression, and every power not granted thereby remains with the people.

  James Madison

  People, May, Constitution

  James Madison (1904). "Los escritos de James Madison: 1787-1790"

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• We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.

  James Madison

  Men, Color, Slavery

  James Madison (1836). "Los Debates en las Convenciones de Varios Estados sobre la Adopción de la Constitución Federal: Según lo recomendado por la Convención General en Filadelfia, en 1787. Junto con el Diario de la Convención Federal, la Carta de Luther Martin, las Actas de Yate, las Opiniones del Congreso, las Resoluciones de Virginia y Kentucky del 98-'99, y Otras Ilustraciones de la Constitución".

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• In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws. Its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.

  James Madison

  Law, Government, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1852). “The Federalist, on the new constitution, written in 1788, with an appendix, containing the letters of Pacificus and Helvidius on the proclamation of neutrality of 1793, also the original articles of confederation and the constitution of the United States”, p.62

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• Los poderes delegados por la Constitución propuesta al gobierno federal son pocos y definidos. Los que deben permanecer en los gobiernos de los Estados son numerosos e indefinidos.

  James Madison

  Government, Nullification, Federalism

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.215

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• Si recurrimos como criterio a los diferentes principios sobre los que se establecen las diferentes formas de gobierno, podemos definir una república como, o al menos podemos otorgar ese nombre a, un gobierno que deriva todos sus poderes directa o indirectamente del gran cuerpo del pueblo, y es administrado por personas que ocupan sus cargos durante el placer por un período limitado, o durante la buena conducta.

  James Madison

  Gobierno, Nombres, Personas

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). "El Federalista: With Letters of Brutus", p.182, Cambridge University Press

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• Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.

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  Government, Agriculture, Giving

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• Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

  James Madison

  Practice, Abuse, Growth

  "Report on the Virginia Resolutions" (1799 - 1800)

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