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I Retired From Public Business From A Thorough Conviction That It Was Not In My Power To Do Any Good, And Very Much Disgusted With Measures, Which Appeared To Me Inconsistent With Common Policy And Justice.

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

Whatever Power May Be Necessary For The National Government A Certain Portion Must Necessarily Be Left In The States. It Is Impossible For One Power To Pervade The Extreme Parts Of The U.s. So As To Carry Equal Justice To Them.

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.

That In Controversies Respecting Property, And In Suits Between Man And Man, The Ancient Trial By Jury Is Preferable To Any Other, And Ought To Be Held Sacred.