Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

Our trade opens to all the world.

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.