It's only merit was in being the first publication which carried the claim of our rights their whole length, and asserted that there was no rightful link of connection between us and England but that of being under the same king.

MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

The Governor would serve a five-year term and be ineligible for reelection.

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.