The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered as the palladium of the liberties of a republic.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as lying at its foundation.

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law . . . . It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic.

[The necessary and proper clause] neither enlarges any power specifically granted; nor is it a grant of any new power to Congress; But it is merely a declaration, for the removal of all uncertainty, that the means of carrying into execution those otherwise granted are included in the grant.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation.