Our system fortunately contemplates a recurrence to first principles, differing in this respect from all that have preceded it, and securing it, I trust, equally against the decay and the commotions which have marked the progress of other governments.
Jackson praises the Constitution's design for returning to first principles as a safeguard against decay.
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