The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war. – James Madison
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. – James Madison
As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights. – James Madison
The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. – James Madison