The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.

No free country has ever been without Parties, which are a natural offspring of freedom.

Is there a Legislative power in fact, not expressly prohibited by the Constitution, which might not, according to the doctrine of the Court, be exercised as a means of carrying into effect some specified Power?

If men were angels, there would be no need of government.

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.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.