The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

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

In the extent and proper structure of the Union, therefore, we behold a republican remedy for the disease incident to republican government.

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

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.

As the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial departments of the United States are co-ordinate, and each equally bound to support the Constitution, it follows that each must in the exercise of its functions be guided by the text of the Constitution according to its own interpretation of it.