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

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

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

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

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.

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

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