The constitutions of Maryland
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. Ezra Stiles
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. Ezra Stiles
The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people. Ezra Stiles
Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents. Ezra Stiles
Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. Ezra Stiles
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government. Ezra Stiles
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. Ezra Stiles
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. Ezra Stiles
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. Ezra Stiles
A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. Ezra Stiles
But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature. Ezra Stiles