The greater part of the governments on earth may be termed monarchical aristocracies, or hereditary dominions independent of the people.
But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
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.
The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God.