Our Constitution represents the work of the finger of Almighty God.

Of all the objections which have been framed against the federal Constitution, this is perhaps the most extraordinary. Whilst the objection itself is levelled against a pretended oligarchy, the principle of it strikes at the very root of republican government.

For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.

Our opinions agree as to the evil, moral, political, and economical, of slavery.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.