If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

[S]ound policy condemns the practice of accumulating debts.

If there are such things as political axioms, the propriety of the judicial power of a government being co-extensive with its legislative, may be ranked among the number.

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency.

If the Constitution is adopted (and it was) the Union will be in fact and in theory an association of States or a Confederacy.

The laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere, and when they depart from this sphere, they are no longer supreme or binding.