In all the co-temporary discussions and comments, which the Constitution underwent, it was constantly justified and recommended on the ground, that the powers not given to the government, were withheld from it.

The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security.

Let the influx of money be ever so great, if there be no confidence, property will sink in value... The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties, and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.

The future and success of America is not in this Constitution, but in the laws of God upon which this Constitution is founded.