American - Clergyman | December 10, 1727 - May 12, 1795
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
Ezra Stiles
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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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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
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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.
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.
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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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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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