We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

letters are not the first, but the last step in the progression from barbarism to civilisation.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

The interests of the States... ought to be made joint in every possible instance in order to cultivate the idea of our being one nation, and to multiply the instances in which the people shall look up to Congress as their head.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.