It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

[A]s it must be admitted that the remedy under the Constitution lies where it has been marked out by the Constitution; and that no appeal can be consistently made from that remedy by those who were and still profess to be parties to it, but the appeal to the parties themselves having an authority above the Constitution or to the law of nature & of nature's God.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

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

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches.