 | Alan Mittleman, Robert Licht, Jonathan D. Sarna - History - 2002 - 396 pages
...case as well. But in making that case Madison called upon a sense of duty, nobility, and more: Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics... | |
 | David M. Ackerman - Prayer in the public schools - 2001 - 96 pages
...is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent and, in the words of Madison, "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." 375 US at 225. 18 Justice Clark stated in Abington: While the Free Exercise Clause clearly prohibits... | |
 | Sharon R. Krause - Philosophy - 2002 - 294 pages
...revere the laws, much as the nobility was obliged to revere the king. Madison, too, emphasized that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties," and held "this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citizens, and one of the noblest characteristics... | |
 | James H. Hutson - Political Science - 2003 - 214 pages
...The nature of the threat was conveyed by a question Madison posed in article three of the Memorial: "Who does not see that the same authority which can...particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects."78 Here Madison was warning his audience that the general assessment bill, as innocuous as its... | |
 | James A. Curry, Richard B. Riley, Richard M. Battistoni - Law - 2003 - 660 pages
...these may dictate." Madison argued that a tax to support organized religion should be defeated because "the same authority which can establish Christianity,...sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other Sects." He also reflected tolerance for non-believers, when stating, "[w]hilst we assert for ourselves a freedom... | |
 | Kenneth S. Friedman - Business & Economics - 2003 - 276 pages
...the protection Scalia withholds. How different is Scalia's vision from James Madison's observation: "Who does not see that the same authority which can...establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christianity, in exclusion of other sects?" It is difficult to see how Scalia's view reflects the intent... | |
 | David R. Goldfield - History - 2003 - 156 pages
...one particular form of religious services." Concluding, the justice cited James Madison's advice that "it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." 19 Justice Potter Stewart, who often voted with the more liberal justices on the Court, rendered the... | |
 | Ted Dracos - Biography & Autobiography - 2010 - 304 pages
...is today a trickling stream may all too soon become a raging torrent and, in the words of Madison, It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." Clark, dashing and smiting Baltimore's porous arguments, concluded the opinion with resounding words:... | |
 | Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll - History - 2003 - 652 pages
...by laws made neither by themselves nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves. 3. Because it is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of Citi2ens, and one of the noblest characteristics... | |
 | William Lee Miller - Religion - 2003 - 300 pages
...so brief and general as to be harmless, Black quoted again from Madison's Memorial and Remonstrance: "It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties." This decision brought perhaps the greatest uproar. Some outraged citizens made a link to the school... | |
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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... 
