Safe and Precise

"When an insturment admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe & precise. I had rather ask an enlargement of power from the nation, where it is found necessary, than to assume it by a construction which would make our powers boundless."

Thomas Jefferson

Preserving Liberty

"Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among people."

John Adams

Critical Examination

"The principles and modes of government are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination by all students that have health and leisure."

James Madison

A New Nation

"Tis done! We have become a nation."

Benjamin Rush

The Free Exercise of Religion

"It is true, we are not disposed to differ much, at present, about religion; but when we are making a constitution, it is to be hoped, for ages and millions yet unborn, why not establish the free exercise of religion as a part of the national compact."

Richard Henry Lee

Reasonable People

"The system, though it may not be perfect in every part, is, upon the whole, a good one; is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit; and is such an one as promises every species of security which a reasonable people can desire"
~Alexander Hamilton; Federalist Papers #85