I BELIEVE in the United States of America as a Government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it; to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies.
William Tyler Page
(you wont find this on wikipedia, wonder why)
With all due respect, Page wrote a bunch of words without one single mention of the underlying, but essential and fundamental, principle underlying all of the other extraneous verbiage:
All of the foregoing was established to protect the sanctity and inviolability of THE INDIVIDUAL against the collective, even if that collective was the combined power of the government itself.