The King Has Degenerated Into

It Is The Business Of A Virtuous Clergyman To Censure Vice In Every Appearance Of It.

Are We At Last Brought To Such Humiliating And Debasing Degradation That We Cannot Be Trusted With Arms For Our Defense? Where Is The Difference Between Having Our Arms In Possession And Under Our Direction, And Having Them Under The Management Of Congress? If Our Defense Be The Real Object Of Having Those Arms, In Whose Hands Can They Be Trusted With More Propriety, Or Equal Safety To Us, As In Our Own Hands?

Suspicion Is A Virtue As Long As Its Object Is The Public Good, And As Long As It Stays Within Proper Bounds. Guard With Jealous Attention The Public Liberty. Suspect Every One Who Approaches That Jewel.

My Political Curiosity, Exclusive Of My Anxious Solicitude For The Public Welfare, Leads Me To Ask Who Authorized Them (the Framers Of The Constitution) To Speak The Language Of 'we, The People,' Instead Of 'we, The States'?

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.