If Congress can employ money indefinitely to the general welfare... they may appoint teachers in every state... The powers of Congress would subvert the very foundation, the very nature of the limited government established by the people of America.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

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?

No power over the freedom of religion [is] delegated to the United States by the Constitution.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

[N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

The regulation of these various and interfering interests forms the principal task of modern legislation and involves the spirit of party and faction in the necessary and ordinary operations of government.