In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

The public affairs of the union are spread throughout a very extensive region, and are extremely diversified by the local affairs connected with them, and can with difficulty be learnt in any other place, than in the central councils, to which a knowledge of them will be brought by the representatives of every part of the empire. Yet some knowledge of the affairs, and even of the laws of all the states, ought to be possessed by the members from each of the states.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

Every word of [the Constitution] decides a question between power and liberty.