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.

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten.

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.

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

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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.