Little More Can Reasonably Be Aimed At

The Treaties Of The United States, To Have Any Force At All, Must Be Considered As Part Of The Law Of The Land.

Men Are Rather Reasoning Than Reasonable Animals For The Most Part Governed By The Impulse Of Passion. This Is A Truth Well Understood By Our Adversaries Who Have Practised Upon It With No Small Benefit To Their Cause. For At The Very Moment They Are Eulogizing The Reason Of Men & Professing To Appeal Only To That Faculty, They Are Courting The Strongest & Most Active Passion Of The Human Heart - Vanity!

Schemes To Subvert The Liberties Of A Great Community Require Time To Mature Them For Execution.

I Propose . . . . The Conformity Of The Proposed Constitution To The True Principles Of Republican Government.

The Same Rule That Teaches The Propriety Of A Partition Between The Various Branches Of Power, Teaches Us Likewise That This Partition Ought To Be So Contrived As To Render The One Independent Of The Other.