I have long thought that our vacant territory was the resource which, in some mode or other, was most applicable and adequate as a gradual cure for t… - James Madison

The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of Government. But what is Government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government.

But we are always to keep in mind that it is safer to trust the consequences of a right principle, than reasonings in support of a bad one.