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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
From the day of the Declaration, the people of the North American union, and of its constituent states, were associated bodies of civilized men and Christians, in a state of nature, but not of anarchy.
Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
From a distance, the American political system is a remarkable success. We have accomplished the peaceful transfer of power for more than two hundred years, and that's unmatched by any civilization in human history. Up close, our political system still has all the ugliness and bad actors that you might suspect.
There's an ugly civil war side to revolutionary Boston that we don't often talk about and a lot of thuggish, vigilante behavior by groups like the Sons of Liberty.
There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
Here, also, has been evolved the form of government consistent with the largest possible civil liberty.