There are but three principles by which all questions should be tested: Freedom, Equality and Justice; and when legislation shall be brought to the test of these, and entirely abstracted from partisanship, there will not be very much further legislation to be performed.
Woodhull identifies freedom, equality, and justice as the three principles for testing all questions.
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