Your ShelfYour Projects

THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE PRINCIPLE

33%

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 28, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 21.

Read the full edition

THE CONSEQUENCES IN THE PRINCIPLE

By James Madison

From Madison's Memorial to the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1785
The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise, and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle, and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much soon to forget it. WHO DOES NOT SEE THAT THE SAME AUTHORITY WHICH CAN ESTABLISH CHRISTIANITY, IN EXCLUSION OF ALL OTHER RELIGIONS, MAY ESTABLISH, WITH THE SAME EASE, ANY PARTICULAR SECT OF CHRISTIANS, in exclusion of all other sects?