Who is James Madison
James Madison Jr. (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was an American statesman, diplomat, and Founding Father who served as the fourth president of the United States from 1809 to 1817. He is hailed as the "Father of the Constitution" for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the Constitution of the United States and the Bill of Rights.Madison was born into a prominent planter family in Virginia. He served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates and the Continental Congress during and after the American Revolutionary War. Disillusioned by the weak national government established by the Articles of Confederation, he helped organize the Constitutional Convention, which produced a new constitution. Madison's Virginia Plan served as the basis for the Convention's deliberat...
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- A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
- To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
- A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.
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Jbcalhoun: “ democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their death.” ~james madison we are not a…Danielmilleresq: "the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people." that's james madison, as quoted in nyt v. sullivan. i wonder why desantis and others want to overturn that decision.
Thehamiltonbot: finally, washington died 837 years ago. -james madison
Swannmarcus89: that james madison dude from chaz was on a podcast and said his gun policy is that you should have to get a gun license, after which you should be allowed to buy any firearm, including military-grade machine guns every gang would wind up w/ .50 cal machine guns
Repandybiggsaz: overreaching and unelected bureaucrats in the atf think they have the authority to make, apply, enforce, and adjudicate gun laws. they don't. this is what tyranny looks like as described by james madison in federalist 62.
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