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.
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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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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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