If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can. The first member of this seems resolvable into the first objection before stated. The jealousy of the subordinate governments is a precious reliance. But observe that those governments are only agents. They must have principles furnished them whereon to found their opposition.
Experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights.
But tho it is not absolutely efficacious under all circumstances, it is of great potency always, and rarely inefficacious. A brace the more will often keep up the building which would have fallen with that brace the less. The inconveniences of the Declaration are that it may cramp government in it's useful exertions. They are in constant progression from bad to worse. The executive in our governments is not the sole, it is scarcely the principal object of my jealousy.