I propose . . . . The conformity of the proposed Constitution to the true principles of republican government.

The Convention probably foresaw what it has been a principal aim of these papers to inculcate that the danger which most threatens our political welfare is, that the state governments will finally sap the foundations of the Union.

I trust that the proposed Constitution afford a genuine specimen of representative government and republican government; and that it will answer, in an eminent degree, all the beneficial purposes of society.

The obscurity is much oftener in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

I confess I am at a loss to discover what temptation the persons entrusted with the administration of the general government could ever feel to divest the States of the authorities of that description. The regulation of the mere domestic police of a State appears to me to hold out slender allurements to ambition.

What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws.