The establishment of the chaplainship to Congress is a palpable violation of ... constitutional principles.
James MadisonI flatter myself [we] have in this country extinguished forever the ambitious hope of making laws for the human mind.
James MadisonIf the public homage of a people can ever be worthy of the favorable regard of the Holy and Omniscient Being to Whom it is addressed, it must be that in which those who join in it are guided only be their free choice-by the impulse of their hearts and the dictates of their consciences.
James MadisonThose who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
James MadisonI believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.
James MadisonThe public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.
James Madison