"It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of trannies, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed."
"When government fears the people, there is liberty.
When the people fear the government, there is trannies”
- Thomas Jefferson
"It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of trannies, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed."
- George Washington