Here the value and quality of liberty, the nature of government, and the dignity of man, were known and understood, and the attachment of the Americans to these principles produced the revolution, as a natural and almost unavoidable consequence.
This passage underscores the deep understanding of liberty and governance that fueled the American Revolution.
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The American constitutions were to liberty what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax.
It has nothing to dread from attacks; truth has given it an establishment, and time will record it with a name as lasting as his own.
It was become evident, that no constitution, worthy of being called by that name, could be established on anything less than a national ground.