A Few Years' Experience Will Convince Us

All Power Is Lodged In, And Consequently Derived From, The People. We Should Wear It As A Breastplate, And Buckle It On As Our Armour.

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.

That General Warrants, Whereby An Officer Or Messenger May Be Commanded To Search Suspected Places Without Evidence Of A Fact Committed, Or To Seize Any Person Or Persons Not Named, Or Whose Offence Is Not Particularly Described And Supported By Evidence, Are Grievous And Oppressive, And Ought Not To Be Granted.

That The People Have A Right To Uniform Government; And, Therefore, That No Government Separate From, Or Independent Of The Government Of Virginia, Ought To Be Erected Or Established Within The Limits Thereof.

To Disarm The People... Was The Best And Most Effectual Way To Enslave Them.