Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.

A just government has no need for the clergy or the church.

I consider it…as subverting the fundamental and characteristic principle of the Government…and as bidding defiance to the sense in which the Constitution is known to have been proposed, advocated, and adopted. If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the General Welfare, the Government is no longer a limited one.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.

Security against foreign danger is one of the primitive objects of civil society. It is an avowed and essential object of the American Union.

The internal effects of a mutable policy are still more calamitous. It poisons the blessings of liberty itself.