Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government.
On the unity of the American people.
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A strong sense of the value of union induced the people, at a very early period, to institute a federal government.
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 to be the first.
The people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently the founders of such a society as that of the United States.
Those who are to be the judges of the law ought to be independent, and under the influence of none but heaven.
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