Topic - James Madison

In Madison’s speech on the Bank Bill, he articulated the views he offered when he wrote his portion of the Federalist Papers — namely, that the powers of the new federal government are few and limited and precisely written down, and establishing a bank is not among them.

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In his bank speech, in which Madison argued brilliantly but unsuccessfully for a textualist understanding of the Constitution — he was opposing the creation of the First National Bank of the United States, essentially because it was not authorized by the Constitution — he laid out the principles of limited government.

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