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238 plain, the means of producing it, amidst the various, complicated and multiplied circumstances of human condition and of human pailties, has rendered the knowledge of Government, proverbially, the most difficult of all sciences. To tender it therefore in any tolerable degree perject and permanent, is a task that has baffled human experience and human effort in past ages of the world.

 Such is the constitution of human nature in its best estate, that the individual is inclined to such his own objects and purposes of happiness in modes and channels inconsistent with those of the whole community. Hence the insecurity of vesting permanent power, for the purposes of Government, in the hands of individuals or a combination of individuals, less than a larger part of the Whole, who are designed to form a social compact. But in this form of society, the insecurity incident to that, where the power has been deposited with an individual, or a limited number of individuals, becomes doubly insecure, from the difficulties attendant on the exercise of powers. Thus retained in the whole body of the community; and the usual result has been that monarchy and aristocracy, prevailed, and seemed under such circumstances best calculated for the purposes of society, as well as to stand the test of time.