There Is A Contagion In Example Which

The Local Interest Of A State Ought In Every Case To Give Way To The Interests Of The Union. For When A Sacrifice Of One Or The Other Is Necessary, The Former Becomes Only An Apparent, Partial Interest, And Should Yield, On The Principle That The Smaller Good Ought Never To Oppose The Greater Good.

I Never Expect To See A Perfect Work From An Imperfect Man.

I Propose . . . . The Conformity Of The Proposed Constitution To The True Principles Of Republican Government.

The Deliberative Sense Of The Community Should Govern.

The Same Rule That Teaches The Propriety Of A Partition Between The Various Branches Of Power, Teaches Us Likewise That This Partition Ought To Be So Contrived As To Render The One Independent Of The Other.