"The appointment of taxes on the various descriptions prperty is an act which seems to require the most exact impartiality; yet there is, perhaps, no legislative act in which greater opportunity and temptation are given to a predominant party to trample on the rules of justice. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pocket (p. 93)."  

I chose to write about is passage from Madison because I can relate this to the current events of today. Just like back in the times of Madison, today taxes are use to the oppurtunity for the rich to save money in their wallet. The issue of taxes is a hot topic of today. Those people of lower income pay more taxes compared to those top 1% of rich people.. Though taxes are suppose to related to one's income, it is though impartial to poorer people to shell out what they really cant afford.

“Government implies the power of making laws. It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation.”    

According to Hamilton, laws are to be obeyed and those who didn't oblige the law should be punished. I agree with Hamilton because to me, whats the point of making laws, if no one will follow it? Without expressing penalty for not following the law, no one would take it serious enough to follow it. The government would be weak, if its constituents didn't enforce the laws that are provided. Like Hamilton, I too feel that using enforcement is necessary to govern the people.

• "All the money you save, or acquire by their labour is stolen from them; and however plausible the excuse may be, that you form to reconcile it to your consciences, yet be assured, that your crime stands registered in the court of Heaven as a breach of the eighth commandment" (p. 45). 

I chose this quote from Benjamin Rush because it stood out to me the most. What Benjamin Rush is saying is, slave owners are reaping the rewards through their slaves hard physical labor. Slave owners try to rationale and easy their minds and conscience finding excuses on how and why slavery is good to the advantage of them and not the slaves. And the ultimate consequence of this crime of slavery will be noticed at the gates of Heaven because it goes against the eighth commandment; Christianity. He saying this because he is against slavery and emphasizing the point that those who claim the Christian religion, that slave ownership is the very subject against Christian value.

• That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness (p. 59).

People have the right to abolish the very government that is not their natural rights. People basically have the right to "rebel" if the government starts to act tyrannical like it was in Europe. It is the right if the people to make a new government that would protect their rights and safety and would make them happy. The founders made sure this was put in the D.o.I. because they want the people's rights to be protected; wanted a government that the people are just as much apart of. They didn't want to be apart of the same type of government like they were apart of before. They are basing this off the learned experience they had.