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the common good; and the exercise of the Legitimate powers delegated to him is restrained to the object of promoting the happiness of the Nation. leaving all other Communities the right of attaining the same end.
This being the theory of the Government we are called to administer, let us submit every private and local interest to the test of its consistency with the common good. It is necessary, that in the proper discharge of the respective trusts assigned us by the suffrages of our Constituents, that we keep constantly in view the great outlines and first principles of a Representatives Government; and that we observe, not merely the letter, but the spirit and design of the fundamental doctrines prescribed to us in the Constitutional Charters limiting our powers and sphere of action. These principles and doctrines are summarily embodied in the written Charters which we have solemnly pledged ourselves to regard. But owing to the imperfection and mutable character of human