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

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

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

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

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.

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