All Power Is Lodged In, And Consequently

That Elections Of Members To Serve As Representatives Of The People, In Assembly, Ought To Be Free; And That All Men, Having Sufficient Evidence Of Permanent Common Interest With, And Attachment To, The Community, Have The Right Of Suffrage, And Cannot Be Taxed Or Deprived Of Their Property For Public Uses, Without Their Own Consent, Or That Of Their Representives So Elected, Nor Bound By Any Law To Which They Have Not, In Like Manner, Assembled, For The Public Good.

A Well-regulated Militia, Composed Of The Body Of The People, Trained To Arms, Is The Proper, Natural, And Safe Defense Of A Free State; That Standing Armies, In Time Of Peace, Should Be Avoided As Dangerous To Liberty; And That In All Cases The Military Should Be Under Strict Subordination To, And Governed By, The Civil Power.

The Freedom Of The Press Is One Of The Great Bulwarks Of Liberty, And Can Never Be Restrained But By Despotic Governments.

All Men Have An Equal, Natural And Unalienable Right To The Free Exercise Of Religion, According To The Dictates Of Conscience; And That No Particular Sect Or Society Of Christians Ought To Be Favored Or Established By Law In Preference To Others.

I Retired From Public Business From A Thorough Conviction That It Was Not In My Power To Do Any Good, And Very Much Disgusted With Measures, Which Appeared To Me Inconsistent With Common Policy And Justice.