Interpreted and applied according to those principles, the great compact adapts itself with healthy ease and freedom to an unlimited extension of that benign system of federative self-government of which it is our glorious and, I trust, immortal charter.
Pierce emphasizes that the principles of the Constitution allow for the growth of self-government.
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