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• The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into…
• The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
• A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are…
• A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
• All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence…
• Our trade opens to all the world.
• Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice,…
• But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
• Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
• The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
• But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
• Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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