To Secure the Blessings of Liberty: Selected Writings
- Gouverneur Morris (author)
- J Jackson Barlow (editor)
Morris served as Deputy Superintendent of Finance during the American Revolution and devised the system of decimal coinage. As a member of the Committee on Style and Arrangement, he put the Constitution in its present form and authored its Preamble. He served as a U.S. Senator, was a prime mover in the creation of the Erie Canal, and took a leading role as a critic of the Jefferson and Madison administrations. This collection illuminates the political and economic thought of Gouverneur Morris.
Key Quotes
Politics & Liberty
Now as Society is in itself Progressive as Commerce gives a mighty Spring to that progressive force as the effects both joint and Separate are to diminish political Liberty. And as Commerce cannot be stationary the society without it may. It follows that political Liberty must be restrained or…