At cheaper and nearer seats of Learning parents with slender incomes may place their sons in a course of education putting them on a level with the sons of the Richest.

Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

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

Ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption

The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion.

The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as well as of our own; and to provide a convenient mode of rectifying their own errors, as future experience may unfold them.