The freedom of speech and opinion, is not only necessary to the happiness of man, considered as a moral and Intellectual Being, but indispensably requisite to the perpetuation of Civil Liberty it should therefore be established as an essential principle, that freedom of investigation is one of the most important rights or a people It is true to proverb, that "ignorance is the parent of vice" Knowledge is therefore a more powerful corrective than coercion By enlightening the understanding, you lay the foundation of positive virtue and benefit.

It cannot be denied, that the powers of government are not original, but strictly derivative, that the only fountain from whence its authority proceeds is public delegation It must ever remain the inherent and incontrovertible right of society, to dissolve its political constitution, whenever the voice of public opinion has declared such dissolution to be...