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Our trade opens to all the world.
Ezra Stiles / Educator
Trade
World
All The World
Opens
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Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.
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America
Errands
Forgotten
Errand
Grand
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Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere.
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Elsewhere
Regions
Tropical
Indians
Numerous
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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
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New York
Wisdom
Constitution
Higher
Maryland
Constitutions
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War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven.
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War
Heaven
Instance
Authorized
Defensive
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The Lord shall have made his American Israel high above all nations which he hath made.
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Israel
Lord
Made
Nations
Above
All Nations
Hath
Shall
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We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
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Chance
Aristocracy
Hereditary
Monarchy
Better Chance
Elective
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The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.
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Peculiar
People
United States
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With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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Originals
People
Property
Aggregate
Resides
Seized
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But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.
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Connecticut
Islands
Legislature
Perfect
Rhode Island
Island
Originally
Polity
Realized
Rhode
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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
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Wisdom
Government
Benevolence
Infinite
Monarchy
Perfect
Most
Possible
Governments
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But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
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Government
Chinese
People
Two
Government People Cannot
Civil
Civil Government
Empire
Million
Multitude
Subsist
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Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.
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Branches
Constituents
Law
Thinking
Affect
Bill
Branch
Instantly
Thinks
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The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
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Government
Earth
Greater
Hereditary
Independent
People
Governments
Termed
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.
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America
Form
Mankind
Providence
Reserved
Forms
Civil
Except
Polity
Realized
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Besides a happy policy as to civil government, it is necessary to institute a system of law and jurisprudence founded in justice, equity, and public right.
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Government
Equity
Institute
Jurisprudence
Justice
Law
Policy
Government Justice Law
Besides
Civil
Civil Government
Public
Necessary
System
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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.
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Giving
Liberty
Pleasure
Secured
United States
Somewhat
Modeled
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There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America.
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Diffusion
Increase
Population
Produce
Believing
English
Reasons
Surpass
Ultimately
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It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest.
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Higher
Superiority
Arises
Branch
Dictates
Seem
Whose
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The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade.
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British
Carolina
Constant
Merchants
Profit
South Carolina
Trade
Virginia
West
West Indies
Losers
Indeed
Indies
Received
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The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.
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Conscience
Enjoyment
Exercise
Liberty
Mankind
Unalienable Rights
Unalienable
Unite
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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.
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Wisdom
Human Society
Imperfect
Justice
World
Almost All
Carried
Civil
Considerable
However
Perhaps
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But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.
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Government
Conquest
Country
Injustice
Series
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Governments
Proved
Reigned
Succeeding
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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.
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Accounts
Asia
People
Together
Two
American Indians
Collected
Combined
Conclusions
Indians
Northeast
Scattered
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All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America. Most of the states, of all ages ...have been founded in rapacity, usurpation, and injustice; so that in the contests recorded in history ...the military history of all nations being but a description of the wars and invasions of the mutual robbers and devastators of the human race.
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War
Military
Race
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