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.

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled.

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.

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

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

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

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