On the importance of checks and balances.
02/07/1788
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Supplies of the most essential kinds find their way not only to British ports and British armies at a distance.
The militia being always to be regarded as the great bulwark of defense and security for free states.
The tendency of our commercial and navigation laws in their present state to favor the enemy and thereby prolong the war...
A nation proud of its rights and conscious of its strength has no choice but an exertion of the 1 in support of the othe...