He calls for unity after the hotly contested election. He promises a wise and frugal government that will protect its citizens without charging overly high taxes.
1. Equal and exact justice to all men,
2. commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling 3. alliances with none;
4. the support of the State governments in all their rights,
5. the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor,
6. a jealous care of the right of election by the people
7. absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority
8. a well disciplined militia,
9. the supremacy of the civil over the military authority;
10.economy in the public expense,
11.the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith;
12.encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce
13. the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason;
14.freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected.
