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

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

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

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

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

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

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.