The great truth that government was made for the people and not the people for government has already been established in the practice and by the example of these United States, and we can do no other than contemplate its further exemplification by a sister republic with the deepest interest.
Tyler emphasizes the principle that government exists to serve the people, a foundational belief in American democracy.
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