 | Arlin M. Adams, Charles J. Emmerich - Law - 1990 - 200 pages
...suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent... | |
 | Michael James Lacey, Knud Haakonssen - History - 1992 - 492 pages
...roused to protect its rights. Lawmakers who would enact such a law were "Tyrants," Madison wrote, and "the People who submit to it are governed by laws...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves." Virginians should "take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties," and thereby emulate the patriots... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1992 - 916 pages
...today that is a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent, and in the words of Madison, "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties!" In considering whether governmental action violates the establishment of religion clause the courts... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Law - 1992 - 914 pages
...today that is a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent, and in the words of Madison, "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties!" In considering whether governmental action violates the establishment of religion clause the courts... | |
 | William Lee Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 316 pages
...early summer of 1784, had written in his great Memorial and Remonstrance: "People who submit to ... laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, are slaves." That was the language, the imagery, of the patriots. It was very much the language of... | |
 | Robert Sikorski - Law - 1993 - 512 pages
...reproach. Madison warned that government officials who would use religious authority to pursue secular ends "exceed the commission from which they derive their...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves." Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments (17851 in The Complete Madison 300 (S. Padover,... | |
 | Marvin E. Frankel - Political Science - 1994 - 146 pages
...perspective, the Kiryas Joel district marked a step on a dangerous path. Madison again is our guide: "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties."16 8 MODESTY AND MUTUAL RESPECT WH r HAT can we hope it may profit us to have taken the... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson, James Madison - 1995 - 730 pages
...suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent... | |
 | Lance Banning - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 264 pages
...suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment, exceed the commission from...by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 pages
...of them be suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. . . . 3. Because, it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. . . . Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all... | |
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