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The Thirteen States are Thirteen Sovereign bodies.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Body
Constitution
Sovereign
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Mankind
Motive
Gain
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Incapable
Freedom Government Long
Protecting
Retain
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Evil
Liberty
World
According
Good World Evil
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The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Atheism
Important
Religious
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Fixed
Prosperity
Regulation
Riches
Trade
Truth Good May
Assumed
Depend
Farmer
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Legislatures have no right to set up an inquisition and examine into the private opinions of men. Test-laws are useless and ineffectual, unjust and tyrannical.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Men
Atheism
Law
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Judge candidly what a wretched figure the American empire will exhibit in the eye of other nations, without a power to array and support a military force for its own protection.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
American Empire
Military Force
Nations
Protection
Wretched
Array
Empire
Exhibit
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The right of the judge to inflict punishment gives him both power and opportunity to oppress the innocent; yet none but crazy men will from thence determine that it is best to have neither a legislature nor judges.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Determine
Innocent
Legislature
Punishment
Inflict
Judges
Neither
Oppress
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The powers of congress must be defined, but their means must be adequate to the purposes of their constitution. It is possible there may be abuses and misapplications; still, it is better to hazard something than to hazard at all.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Abuse
May
Mean
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Collecting
Credit
Rejected
Wealth
Oppressive
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Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Ambiguous
Persons
Judge
Attain
Correct
Defect
Equally
Indefinite
Mental
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A government capable of controlling the whole, and bringing its force to a point, is one of the prerequisites for national liberty. We combine in society, with an expectation to have our persons and properties defended against unreasonable exactions either at home or abroad.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Capable
Liberty
Unreasonable
Abroad
Bringing
Defended
Combine
Controlling
Expectation
Properties
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All good men wish the entire abolition of slavery, as soon as it can take place with safety to the public, and for the lasting good of the present wretched race of slaves. The only possible step that could be taken towards it by the convention was to fix a period after which they should not be imported.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Men
Race
Taken
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The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Ambiguous
Composition
Arises
Charge
Connect
Sentiment
Indefinite
Manner
Neither
Precisely
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Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Kings
Ignorance
Religious
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world. Justly understood it is sacred next to those which we appropriate in divine adoration; but in the mouths of some it means anything, which enervate a necessary government; excite a jealousy of the rulers who are our own choice, and keep society in confusion for want of a power sufficiently concentered to promote good.
Oliver Ellsworth / Former United States Senator
Freedom
Government
Mean
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