819. BILL OF RIGHTS, A Guard to Liberty.—
I disapproved from the first moment
[in the new Constitution] the want of
a bill of rights, to guard liberty against the
legislative as well as the executive branches
of the government; that is to say, to secure
freedom in religion, freedom of the press,
freedom from monopolies, freedom from unlawful
imprisonment, freedom from a permanent
military, and a trial by jury, in all
cases determinable by the laws of the land.—
To F. Hopkinson. Washington ed. ii, 586.
Ford ed., v, 76.
(P.
March. 1789)
