The Epithets Of Parent And Child Have

A Few Years' Experience Will Convince Us That Those Things Which At The Time They Happened We Regarded As Our Greatest Misfortunes Have Proved Our Greatest Blessings.

I Ask, Sir, What Is The Militia? It Is The Whole People Except For A Few Public Officials.

That The Legislative And Executive Powers Of The State Should Be Separate And Distinct From The Judiciary; And That The Members Of The Two First May Be Restrained From Oppression, By Feeling And Participating The Burdens Of The People, They Should, At Fixed Periods, Be Reduced To A Private Station, Return Into That Body From Which They Were Originally Taken, And The Vacancies Be Supplied By Frequent, Certain, And Regular Elections, In Which All, Or Any Part Of The Former Members, To Be Again Eligible, Or Ineligible, As The Laws Shall Direct.

All Power Is Vested In, And Consequently Derived From, The People; [...] Magistrates Are Their Trustees And Servants, And At All Times Amenable To Them.

That Slow Poison [slavery] Is Daily Contaminating The Minds And Morals Of Our People. Every Gentlemen Here Is Born A Petty Tyrant, Practiced In Acts Of Despotism And Cruelty.