James Madison Quotes About States Rights

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  • With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators.

    James Madison's letter to James Robertson, April 20, 1831.
  • The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.215
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James Madison

  • Born: March 16, 1751
  • Died: June 28, 1836
  • Occupation: 4th U.S. President