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There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this

There is an evil which ought to be guarded against in the indefinite accumulation of property from the capacity of holding it in perpetuity by...corporations. The power of all corporations ought to be limited in this respect. The growing wealth acquired by them never fails to be a source of abuses.

James Madison

Evil, Abuse, Growing

"Monopolies, Perpetuities, Corporations, Ecclesiastical Endowments". Essay by James Madison, 1817 - 1832.

It is very certain that [the commerce clause] grew out of the abuse of the power by the importing States in taxing the non-importing, and was intended as a negative and preventive provision against injustice among the States themselves, rather than as a power to be used for the positive purposes of the General Government.

James Madison

Government, Abuse, Negative

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

James Madison

Practice, Abuse, Growth

"Report on the Virginia Resolutions" (1799 - 1800)

The growing wealth aquired by them corporations never fails to be a source of abuses.

James Madison

Abuse, Democracy, Growing

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

James Madison

Abuse, Degrees, Use

"Report on the Virginia Resolutions" (1799 - 1800)