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Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation.

James Madison

1788

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Civic virtue Virtue Political theory

Time

1788 American Revolutionary Period

Person

James Madison

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Madison, James. Selected Writings of James Madison, edited by Ralph Ketcham. Hackett Publishing Company, 2006.

Original citation

Madison, James. Judicial Powers of the National Government, 20 June 1788.

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