Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

We have the self-evident right to regulate our trade according to our own will and our own interest . . . . This right can be denied to no independent nation.

What is here a right towards men, is a duty towards the Creator.

The first question that offers itself is, whether the general form and aspect of the government be strictly republican? It is evident that no other form would be reconcileable with the genius of the people of America; with the fundamental principles of the revolution; or with that honourable determination which animates every votary of freedom, to rest all our political experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.

THE Constitution proposed by the convention may be considered under two general points of view. The FIRST relates to the sum or quantity of power which it vests in the government, including the restraints imposed on the States. The SECOND, to the particular structure of the government, and the distribution of this power among its branches.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.