James Madison Quotes The protection of these faculties

• The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right .
• The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
• The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
• The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.

                                                                                                                                 James Madison