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• security being the true design and end of government,
• This necessity, like a gravitating power, would soon form our newly arrived emigrants into society, the reciprocal blessing of which, would supersede, and render the obligations of law and government unnecessary while they remained perfectly just
• establishing some form of government to supply the defect of moral virtue.
• To say that the constitution of England is a UNION of three powers reciprocally CHECKING each other, is farcical, either the words have no meaning, or they are flat contradictions.
• The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly;