John Jay actually said...

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

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,...

The people are the sovereign of this country, and consequently the founders of such a society as that of the United States.