The proposed Constitution is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal constitution; but a composition of both. – 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
Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. – James Madison
The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world. – James Madison
The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life. – Felix Frankfurter