If This Be Treason, Make

Power Is The Great Evil With Which We Are Contending. We Have Divided Power Between Three Branches Of Government And Erected Checks And Balances To Prevent Abuse Of Power. However, Where Is The Check On The Power Of The Judiciary? If We Fail To Check The Power Of The Judiciary, I Predict That We Will Eventually Live Under Judicial Tyranny.

....i Am Sure That The Dangers Of This System (the Federal Constitution) Are Real, When Those Who Have No Similar Interest With The People Of This Country (the South) Are To Legislate For Us - When Our Dearest Rights Are To Be Left, In The Hands Of Those, Whose Advantage It Will Be To Infringe Them.

[our Constitution] Is An Instrument For The People To Restrain The Government.

I Look On That Paper (the Constitution) As The Most Fatal Plan That Could Possibly Be Conceived To Enslave A Free People.

Bad Men Cannot Make Good Citizens. It Is When A People Forget God That Tyrants Forge Their Chains. A Vitiated State Of Morals, A Corrupted Public Conscience, Is Incompatible With Freedom. No Free Government, Or The Blessings Of Liberty, Can Be Preserved To Any People But By A Firm Adherence To Justice, Moderation, Temperance, Frugality, And Virtue; And By A Frequent Recurrence To Fundamental Principles.