The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of the nation.

A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.

Government destitute of energy, will ever produce anarchy.

...to support the Constitution, which is the cement of the Union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities; to respect the rights and authorities reserved to the States and to the people as equally incorporated with and essential to the success of the general system;... to keep within the requisite limits a standing military force, always remembering that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics-that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.

The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the state shall not be questioned.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property; other property depending in part on positive law, the exercise of that, being a natural and unalienable right.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.