Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens, the hemlock on one day, and statues on the next.

An efficient militia is authorized and contemplated by the Constitution and required by the spirit and safety of free government.

In this relation, then, the proposed government cannot be deemed a national one; since its jurisdiction extends to certain enumerated objects only, and leaves to the several states, a residuary and inviolable sovereignty over all other objects.

If man is not fit to govern himself, how can he be fit to govern someone else?

A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.