In a government like ours more especially should all public acts be, as far as practicable, simple, undisguised, and intelligible, that they may become fit subjects for the approbation to animadversion of the people.
Jackson stresses the need for transparency and simplicity in public acts to ensure public understanding and approval.
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If we turn to our relations with foreign powers, we find our condition equally gratifying.
It is from within, among yourselves--from cupidity, from corruption, from disappointed ambition and inordinate thirst for power--that factions will be formed and liberty endangered.
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