A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
From Ezra Stiles
Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia.
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
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