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While James Madison understood that a healthy republic was impossible without engaged citizens, he also recognized that in a free nation people would divide into competing interests for a variety of reasons
Bill of Rights Institute • Responsibilities of American Citizenship
After the inauguration, Madison showed him a dozen amendments he had drafted; after being whittled down to ten, they were to achieve renown as the Bill of Rights. Encountering heavy resistance in the new Congress, Madison asked Washington for a show of support for the amendments and elicited from him an all-important letter in late May 1789. While
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"Rights and liberties, powers and opportunities, income and wealth."
Gerald N. Rosenberg • The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? Second Edition (American Politics and Political Economy Series)
A republic, if you can keep it