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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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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 Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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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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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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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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