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The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first examples of government erected on the simple principles of nature: and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.
It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had any interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the inspiration of heaven
it will for ever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses.
Thirteen governments thus founded on the natural authority of the people alone, without a pretence of miracle or mystery
are a great point gained in favour of the rights of mankind
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