If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

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

A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.

A government, forever changing and changeable, is, indeed, in a state bordering upon anarchy and confusion.

One of the ordinary modes, by which tyrants accomplish their purposes without resistance, is, by disarming the people, and making it an offense to keep arms.

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