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Zenger trial
* "The admission of slaves into the Representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the Coast of Africa, and in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a government instituted for the protection of the rights of mankind, than the Citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror, so nefarious a practice."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_808.asp Madison Debates], August 8th, 1787</ref>
* "The admission of slaves into the Representation when fairly explained comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the Coast of Africa, and in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondages, shall have more votes in a government instituted for the protection of the rights of mankind, than the Citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror, so nefarious a practice."<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_808.asp Madison Debates], August 8th, 1787</ref>
* He ran over the privileges which emigrants would enjoy among us, though they should be deprived of that of being eligible to the great offices of Government; observing that they exceeded the privileges allowed to foreigners in any part of the world; and that as every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_809.asp Madison Debates, August 9, 1787]</ref>
* He ran over the privileges which emigrants would enjoy among us, though they should be deprived of that of being eligible to the great offices of Government; observing that they exceeded the privileges allowed to foreigners in any part of the world; and that as every Society from a great nation down to a club had the right of declaring the conditions on which new members should be admitted.<ref>[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_809.asp Madison Debates, August 9, 1787]</ref>
* "The trial of Zenger in 1735 was the germ of American freedom, the morning star of that liberty which subsequently revolutionized America."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Uu9FAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1559 Harper's Popular Cyclopedia of United States History], [[Benson John Lossing]]</ref>
==Further reading==
==Further reading==