A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.Ezra Stiles
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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
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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.
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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