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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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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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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