James Madison and the Future of Limited GovernmentJohn Curtis Samples Cato Institute, 2002 - 246 lappuses The essays in this volume use Madison to engage such contemporary issues as multiculturalism, federalism, the emerging democracies, the scope of international law, and faith-based policy and politics. This book speaks to both the past and present of the American republic. |
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... create a government strong enough to control the governed and yet somehow able to control itself . The Framers saw the Constitution as a social contract that delegated power from the people to advance the goals cited in the Preamble ...
... create a government strong enough to control the governed and yet somehow able to control itself . The Framers saw the Constitution as a social contract that delegated power from the people to advance the goals cited in the Preamble ...
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John Curtis Samples. national and state governments created a healthy competition that might restrain the overly ambitious . As Madison saw it , the three branches of the national government would be jealous defenders of their turf and ...
John Curtis Samples. national and state governments created a healthy competition that might restrain the overly ambitious . As Madison saw it , the three branches of the national government would be jealous defenders of their turf and ...
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... created equal and endowed with certain rights . That universality has been subject to much doubt , not least from ... Creating an international polity might well threaten property if the " South " had working majorities in the new ...
... created equal and endowed with certain rights . That universality has been subject to much doubt , not least from ... Creating an international polity might well threaten property if the " South " had working majorities in the new ...
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... create and maintain institutions of governance to preserve social order in light of the proclivities that we , as members of the community , exhibit in our behavior , one toward another . The attain- ability as well as the desirability ...
... create and maintain institutions of governance to preserve social order in light of the proclivities that we , as members of the community , exhibit in our behavior , one toward another . The attain- ability as well as the desirability ...
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... this federal system had the potential to be superior to any historical alternative . By creating a system of dual sovereignty , the Constitution established a central government with 15 Recapturing Madison's Constitution.
... this federal system had the potential to be superior to any historical alternative . By creating a system of dual sovereignty , the Constitution established a central government with 15 Recapturing Madison's Constitution.
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The Madisonian Legacy A Jeffersonian Perspective | 59 |
Madison and Multiculturalism Group Representation Group Rights and Constitutionalism | 71 |
Indians in Madisons Constitutional Order | 121 |
James Madison on Religion and Politics | 135 |
James Madison on Religion and Politics Conservative AntiRationalist Libertarian | 147 |
Madison and the Revival of Pure Democracy | 165 |
The Rule of Law and Freedom in Emerging Democracies A Madisonian Perspective | 191 |
Governance beyond the Nation State James Madison on Foreign Policy and Universal Peace | 213 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 229 |
INDEX | 233 |
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9. lappuse - But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? 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...
118. lappuse - So that however it may be mistaken, the end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For ' in all the states of created beings, capable of laws, where there is no law there is no freedom.
122. lappuse - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States : Fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States : Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians...
64. lappuse - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
166. lappuse - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
77. lappuse - The aim of every political constitution is, or ought to be, first to obtain for rulers men who possess most wisdom to discern, and most virtue to pursue, the common good of the society...
65. lappuse - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
72. lappuse - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
40. lappuse - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted, and on this very account would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted; for why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
54. lappuse - ... the preservation of the general government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home, and safety abroad: a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
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