But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
Ezra StilesWith the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
Ezra StilesBut 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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