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.

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

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

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

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.