Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.

I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that is not the guide in expounding it, there may be no security.

The rights of man as the foundation of just Government had been long understood but the superstructures projected had been sadly defective

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

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

Landholders ought to have a share in the government to support these invaluable interests and check the other many. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?