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TRAVELS IN 
CHAP. IL 
On thtir GOVERNMENT and CIVIL SOCIETY. 
The conftitution or fyftem of their police is 
limply natural, and as little complicated as that 
which is funpofed to direct or rule the approved 
economy of the ant and the bee ; and feems to be 
nothing more than the iimple dictates of natural 
reafon, plain to every one, yet recommended to 
them by their wife and virtuous elders as divine, 
becaufe neceftary for fecuring mutual happinefs : 
equally binding and effectual, as being propofed 
and aflented to in the general combination : every 
one's confcience being a fufficient conviction (the 
golden rule, do as you would be done by) in- 
itantly prefents to view, and produces a fociety 
of peace and love, which in effect better maintains 
human happinefs, than the mold complicated fyf- 
tem of modern politics, or fumptuary laws, en- 
forced by coercive means : for here the people are 
all on an equality, as to the pofteftion and enjoy- 
ments of the common neceftaries and convenien- 
ces of life, for luxuries and fuperfluities they have 
none. 
Th is natural conftitution is fimply fubordinate ; 
and the fupreme, fovereign or executive power 
refides in a council of elderly chiefs, warriors and 
others, refpebtable for wifdom, valour and virtue. 
At the head of this venerable fenate, prefides 
their mico or king, which fignifies a magiftrate 
or chief ruler : the governors of Carolina, Geor- 
gia, &c., are called inicos ; and the king of Eng- 
land is called Ant-apala-mico-clucco % that is the 
great king, over or beyond the great water. 
* Clucco fignifies great or excellent. 
The 
