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cliscoverics of a few enlightened philosophers, they 

 became the prevailing Sentiments of the whole 

 body of the American citizens : And from that 

 period until nowjthey have been constantly opera- 

 ting to produce a more natural form of govern- 

 ment, a more perfect system of freedom, and a 

 more flourishing state of society in America, 

 than ever had been known before, arnong all the 

 associations of men^ 



