As Nations Can Not Be Rewarded Or

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

All Power Is Vested In, And Consequently Derived From, The People; [...] Magistrates Are Their Trustees And Servants, And At All Times Amenable To Them.

Attend With Diligence And Strict Integrity To The Interest Of Your Correspondents And Enter Into No Engagements Which You Have Not The Almost Certain Means Of Performing.

Our All Is At Stake, And The Little Conveniencys And Comforts Of Life, When Set In Competition With Our Liberty, Ought To Be Rejected Not With Reluctance But With Pleasure.

That The Legislative And Executive Powers Of The State Should Be Separate And Distinct From The Judiciary; And That The Members Of The Two First May Be Restrained From Oppression, By Feeling And Participating The Burdens Of The People, They Should, At Fixed Periods, Be Reduced To A Private Station, Return Into That Body From Which They Were Originally Taken, And The Vacancies Be Supplied By Frequent, Certain, And Regular Elections, In Which All, Or Any Part Of The Former Members, To Be Again Eligible, Or Ineligible, As The Laws Shall Direct.