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Präsident / 04. / 1809 - 1817, entwickelte 1781 Grundlagen der USA-Verfassung (USA, 1751 - 1836).

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James Madison wäre heute 273 Jahre, 1 Monat, 19 Tage oder 99.762 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.03.1751 in Port Conway/Virginia
Gestorben am 28.06.1836 in Montpelier/Virginia
Sternzeichen: ♓ Fische

• A popular government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
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• Having outlived so many of my contemporaries, I ought not to forget that I may be thought to have outlived myself.
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• In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by power. America has set the example, and France has followed it, of charters of power granted by liberty.
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• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires.But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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• No man can be a competent legislator who does not add to an upright intention and a sound judgment a certain degree of knowledge of the subjects on which he is to legislate.
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• Of all the evils to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops every other. War is the patent of armies; from these proceed depts and taxes. And armies, and debts, and takes, are the known instruments for bringing the many under the dominion of the few. In war, too, the discretionary power of the executive is extended; its influence indealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the minds are added to those of subduing the force of the people! No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
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• Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.
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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.
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• There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpation.
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