We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance.

Another advantage accruing from this ingredient in the constitution of a senate, is the additional impediment it must prove against improper acts of legislation. No law or resolution can now be passed without the concurrence first of a majority of the people, and then of a majority of the states.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

If we advert to the nature of republican government, we shall find that the censorial power is in the people over the government, and not in the government over the people.

The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.