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That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service

That is not a just government, nor is property secure under it, where the property which a man has in his personal safety and personal liberty, is violated by arbitrary seizures of one class of citizens for the service of the rest.

James Madison

Men, Class, Safety

James Madison (1865). “Letters and other writings of James Madison”, p.479

[A]ll power is originally vested in, and consequently derived from, the people. That government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty and the right of acquiring property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety. That the people have an indubitable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to reform or change their government whenever it be found adverse or inadequate to the purpose of its institution.

James Madison

Government, People, Safety

James Madison (1999). “Writings”

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy. They are more: they are the best basis of public liberty, and the strongest bulwark of public safety. It follows, that the greater the proportion of this class to the whole society, the more free, the more independent, and the more happy must be the society itself.

James Madison

Independent, Class, Safety

James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.12, University of Virginia Press

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

James Madison

Government, Safety, Second Amendment

James Madison (1819). “The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819”, p.379

The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.

James Madison

Happiness, Safety, Political

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.216, Cambridge University Press