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

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.

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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.