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

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

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.

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

It should therefore be difficult in a republic to declare war; but not to make peace.

And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice.

Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, and are held by no certain tenure, and are redressed, when violated, by no certain remedies, society fails of all its value; and men may as well return to a state of savage and barbarous independence.