John Jay actually said...

Among the many objects to which a wise and free people find it necessary to direct their attention, that of providing for their safety seems...

Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the...

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges,...

Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instit...