“This Constitution is really, in its formation, a government of the people…No government before introduced among mankind ever contained so many checks and such efficacious restraints to prevent it from degenerating into any species of oppression…. the balances arising from the distribution of the legislative, executive, and judicial powers are the best that have [ever] been instituted.”
Proposed address to Congress (never delivered), April 1789, Fitzparrick, 30:299.