The President is responsible to the public for the conduct of the person he has nominated and appointed.

The power to declare war, including the power of judging the causes of war, is fully and exclusively vested in the legislature.

The magnitude of this evil among us is so deeply felt, and so universally acknowledged, that no merit could be greater than that of devising a satisfactory remedy for it.

For the same reason that the members of the State legislatures will be unlikely to attach themselves sufficiently to national objects, the members of the federal legislature will be likely to attach themselves too much to local objects.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Nothing could be more irrational than to give the people power, and to withhold from them information without which power is abused.

Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution.