War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

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.

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.

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

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.

The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.