...Federalist No. 39 [MADISON] January 16, 1788 THE last paper having concluded the observations which were meant to introduce a candid survey of the plan of...fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...flow from them, must fall with them.403 JAMES MADISON 1n Federalist Paper #39, James Madison stated: That honourable determination which animates every...political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.404 A similar statement that has sometimes been attributed to James Madison, but nevertheless...

...of Americans and "the fundamental principles of the Revolution," but also because of "that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom,...experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government" (no. 39, 239). Hamilton's third strain of argument in no. 78 contains a hint of the need for the highest...

...aspect of the government be strictly republican. It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the...fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments...

...aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the...fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...

...character," then it must be abandoned as "indefensible" because no other form of government is "reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with the honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments...

...queftion that offers itfelf is, whether the general for,m and afpeft of the government be ftriftly republican ? It is evident that no other form would...fundamental principles of the revolution ; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to reft all our political experiments...

...awakened by practice and habit. James Madison, for example, writes in The Federalist of "that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom...experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government." In the largest sense, those experiments aim to prove whether the latent capacity of mankind for self-government...

..."It is evident that no other form [than the form proposed in the Constitution] would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the...fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination which animates every votary of freedom to rest all our political experiments...

...aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcilable with the genius of the people of America; with the...fundamental principles of the Revolution; or with that honorable determination, which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments...