TRAVELS IN 
CHAP. II. 
On iheir Government and Civil Society. 
The conftitution or fyftem of their police is 
limply natural, and as little complicated as that 
which is fuppofed to direct or rule the approved 
economy of the ant and the bee ; and feems to be 
nothing more than the fimple dictates of natural 
reafc-n, plain to every one, yet recommended to 
them by their wife and virtuous elders as divine, 
becaufe neceffary for fecuring mutual happinefs ; 
equally binding and effectual, as being • propofed 
and aflented to in the general combination : every 
one's conscience being a fufficient conviction (the 
golden rule, do as you would be done by) in- 
ftantly prefents to view, and produces a fociety of 
peace and love, which in effect better maintains 
human happinefs, than the mod complicated fyf- 
tem of modern politics, or fumpluary laws, en- 
forced by coercive means : for here the people are 
all on an equality, as to the poifeffion and enjoy- 
ments- of the common necefiaries and convenience^ 
of life, for lurries and fuperfluities they have 
none. 
This natural conftitution is limply fubordinate ; 
and the fupreme, fovereign or executive power re- 
fides in a council of elderly chiefs, warriors and 
others, refpecTable for wifdom, valour and virtue. 
At the head of this venerable fenate, prefides 
their mico or king, which figniiies a magiltrate cr 
chief ruler : the governors of Carolina. Georgia, 
&c. are called micos ; and the king of England is 
called Ant-apala-mico-clucco *, that is the great 
king, over or beyond the great water. 
* CJuceo £gni£es great or, C3tfellen| 
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