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.

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.