 | Susan Dudley Gold - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2006 - 200 pages
...is today 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 his opinion, Clark also dealt with the argument that banning such religious exercises interfered... | |
 | Siarlys Jenkins - Law - 2005 - 272 pages
...state religion, or revived religious persecution. The court turned to James Madison for its response: "[I]t 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... | |
 | Kathryn Page Camp - Law - 2006 - 232 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... | |
 | Bryan W. Brickner - History - 2006 - 179 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...themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.10 Madison did not counsel patience when confronting usurpation. Instead, as he continued his... | |
 | Charles Gaines - Religion - 2006 - 422 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...themselves nor by an authority derived from them, they are slaves,** In 1788 Madison warned of the weakness of our system to guard against the tyranny... | |
 | Bill Bowman - Reference - 2006 - 182 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...governed by laws made neither by themselves nor by an 63 "Records of the Federal Convention", June 28, 1787: http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/BenFranklin3.JPG... | |
 | Jeff Broadwater - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
...sects, but his arguments transcended the immediate issue. As Madison wrote, in good republican fashion, "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Mason had used that argument many times. Who could not see, Madison asked, that "the same authority... | |
 | Steven V. Mazie - Political Science - 2006 - 338 pages
...infringements on the cherished right of religious free exercise but the loss of all fundamental liberties. "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties," Madison admonishes. "We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the... | |
 | Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...suffered to overleap the great Barrier which defends the rights of the people. The Rulers who are guilty ity, they may sweep away all our fundamental rights;...sacred: Either we must say, that they may controul 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent... | |
 | Lenny Flank - Religion - 2007 - 245 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...an authority derived from them, and are slaves.... Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other... | |
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