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Constitution
The Constitution is the guide which I never can abandon.
A spirit of accommodation was the basis of the present Constitution.
The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly [the Constitutional Convention] every morning before we proceed to business…
[N]either the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.
