Considering The Natural Lust For

The Question Then Will Be, Whether A Consolidated Government Can Preserve The Freedom And Secure The Rights Of The People.

Every Master Of Slaves Is Born A Petty Tyrant. They Bring The Judgment Of Heaven On A Country. As Nations Can Not Be Rewarded Or Punished In The Next World They Must Be In This. By An Inevitable Chain Of Causes & Effects Providence Punishes National Sins, By National Calamities.

Taught To Regard A Part Of Our Own Species In The Most Abject And Contemptible Degree Below Us, We Lose That Idea Of The Dignity Of Man Which The Hand Of Nature Had Implanted In Us, For Great And Useful Purposes.

Every Selfish Motive Therefore, Every Family Attachment, Ought To Recommend Such A System Of Policy As Would Provide No Less Carefully For The Rights And Happiness Of The Lowest Than Of The Highest Orders Of Citizens.

There Is A Passion Natural To The Mind Of Man, Especially A Free Man, Which Renders Him Impatient Of Restraint.