Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.
Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
The Constitution of the United States, like all systems of government which are permanent, had its origin in the history and necessities of the people through whose instrumentality and for whose benefit it was formed.
There is one view of the subject which ought to have its influence on those who espouse doctrines which strike at the authoritative origin and efficacious operation of the Government of the United States. The Government of the U.S. like all Governments free in their principles, rests on compact; a compact, not between the Government & the parties who formed & live under it; but among the parties themselves, and the strongest of Governments are those in which the compacts were most fairly formed and most faithfully executed.
Political power, considered in general, not descending in particular to monarchy, aristocracy, or democracy, comes directly from God alone.
Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.
Governments have their origin in the moral identity of men.
Locke contended that government originates out of the necessity for protecting property.
To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.
Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.
