The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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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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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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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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In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.
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Our trade opens to all the world.
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The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.