“Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.”
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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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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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
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