What is the structure of government that will best guard against the precipitate counsels and factious combinations for unjust purposes, without a sacrifice of the fundamental principle of republicanism?

In Europe, charters of liberty have been granted by Power. In America ... charters of power [are] granted by liberty.

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

Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?

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

The best service that can be rendered to a Country, next to that of giving it liberty, is in diffusing the mental improvement equally essential to the preservation, and the enjoyment of the blessing.