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

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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.

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

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

Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.