“From James Madison to Henry Colman, 25 August 1826,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/7q97. Dr Sir I have read with pleasure the copy of your Oration on the 4th of July,
“Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank, 15 February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/yb8c. You will herewith receive the result of the Convention, which continued
“For the National Gazette, 28 January 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/q2nf. THE boasted equilibrium of this government, (so far as it is a reality) is maintained less by the distribution
“For the National Gazette, 20 December 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/7gtr. Republican. — The people themselves. The sacred trust can be no where so safe as in the hands most
A perfect theory on this subject would be useful, not because it could be reduced to practice by any plan of legislation, or ought to be attempted by violence on
No government is perhaps reducible to a sole principle of operation. Where the theory approaches nearest to this character, different and often heterogeneous principles mingle their influence in the administration.
Power being found by universal experience liable to abuses, a distribution of it into separate departments has become a first principle of free governments. By this contrivance, the portion entrusted
Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one. As there are cases where the public opinion must be obeyed by the government;
Much has been said, and not without reason, against a consolidation of the states into one government. Omitting lesser objections, two consequences would probably flow from such a change in
“From James Madison to William Short, 6 June 1787,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://teachingamericanhistory.org/40rb. … The Convention has been formed about 12 days. It contains in several instances the most respectable
