We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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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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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
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Our trade opens to all the world.
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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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