James Madison famously wrote in Federalist No. 51 that “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.” The remedy entailed structuring a g ...

There is probably no quotation that I used more in my American politics courses than James Madison's from Federalist 51: "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to ...

Madison makes constant, and fairly smirking, references to moralists who would rely on the “better motives” of men to constrain power. “If men were angels,” he famously writes of such ...

James Madison wrote in 1788, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” But the only angel near Utah’s Capitol Hill is standing atop the Salt Lake Temple. It only takes a few ...

James Madison once famously said, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." One might similarly assert, with apologies in advance to our fourth president, that "if all parties to M&A ...

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. ... To quote James Madison, "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections of human nature?" ...

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James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights would become mere “parchment barrier,” words on paper ignored by successive ...

James Madison famously wrote in Federalist No. 51 that “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.” The remedy entailed structuring a government that doesn’t merely control the ...

James Madison famously wrote in Federalist No. 51 that “if men were angels, no government would be necessary.” The remedy entailed structuring a government that doesn’t merely control the ...