

“The advancement of science and the diffusion of information [is] the best aliment to true liberty.”
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“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments, the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents.”
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3
― Letters and Other Writings of James Madison Volume 3

“The character of such a government ought to secure, first, against foreign invasion; secondly, against dissensions between members of the Union, or seditions in particular States; thirdly, to procure to the several States various blessings of which an isolated situation was incapable; fourthly, it should be able to defend itself against encroachment; and fifthly, to be paramount to the State Constitutions.”
― Journal of the Federal Convention: Volumes 1 & 2
― Journal of the Federal Convention: Volumes 1 & 2
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