The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.
We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people
The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen
Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level
It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man