The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
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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.Ezra Stiles
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