The powers of the federal government are enumerated; it can only operate in certain cases; it has legislative powers on defined and limited objects, beyond which it cannot extend its jurisdiction.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a freer aspect,& the laws favor a subdivision of property.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

There is not a shadow of right in the general government to intermingle with religion. Its least interference with it would be a most flagrant usurpation.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

The purpose of the Constitution is to restrict the majority's ability to harm a minority.

Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one.