... "independent" governments all through the world are in a state of Nature, it is plain the world never was, nor never will be, without numbers of men in that state. I have named all governors of "independent" communities, whether they are, or are not, in league with others; ... of the practice of their ancestors, the fundamental laws of their country, the fixed form of a constitution whose merits are confirmedby the solid test of long experience and an increasing public strength and national prosperity. They despise experience as the wisdom of unlettered men; and as for ... modes of poli...

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