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.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

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

The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.