...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ... principles than their antagonists. Ambition, avarice, personal animosity, party opposition, and many other mo- tives not more laudable than these, ar... ...ct The conformity of the proposed constitution to the true prin- ciples of republican government Its analogy to your own state constitution and lastly... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...se the prospect of present loss or advantage may often tempt the governing party in one or two States to swerve from good faith and justice; but those... ...advocates of despotism have drawn arguments, not only against the forms of republican government, but against the very principles of civil liberty. Th... ...iple, and were accord- ingly those which have best deserved, and have most liberally received, the applauding suffrages of political writers. This exc... ...ngage- ments to immediate necessity? How can it undertake or ex- ecute any liberal or enlarged plans of public good? Let us attend to what would be th...

...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

...an the recent debates on Reform of Parliament, that both Conservatives and Liberals (if I may continue to call them what they still call themselves) h... ...h, in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness, might be adopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing any thing which he really feels ... ...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ...sarily with those who are in pos session of the government. A much weaker party in all other elements of power may greatly preponderate when the pow ... ...stood by “consenting unto his death,” would any one have supposed that the party of that stoned man were then and there the strongest power in society... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...utive officers by popular suffrage, ought the chief of the executive, in a republican government, to be an exception? Is it a good rule which, in the ...