TRAVELS IN 
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CHAP. IL 
On their. GOVERNMENT and CIVIL SOCIETY. 
The conftitution or fyftem of their police is Am- 
ply natural, and as little complicated as that which 
is fuppofed to dire 61: or rule the approved economy 
of the ant and the bee ; and fee ms to be nothing 
more than the Ample di&ates of natural reafon, 
plain to every one, yet recommended to them by 
their wife and virtuous elders as divine, becaufe ne- 
ceffary for learning mutual happinefs : equally bind- 
ing and effedlual, as being propofed and alfented to 
in the general combination : every one’s confcience 
being a fufficient convidlion (the golden rule, do as 
you would be done by) inftantly prefents to view, 
and produces a fcciety of peace and love, which in 
effect better maintains human happinefs, than the 
moft complicated fyftem of modern politics, ©r 
fumptuary laws, enforced by coercive means : for 
here the people are all on an equality, as to the pof- 
feftion and enjoyments of the common neceflaries 
and conveniences of life, for luxuries and fuperfluh. 
ties they have none. 
This natural conftitution is (imply fubordinate; 
and the fupreme, fovereign or executive power re- 
Ades in a council of elderly chiefs, warriors and 
others, refpe6table for wifdcm, valour and virtue. 
At the head of this venerable fenate, preftdes their 
mice or king, which ftgnifies a magiftrate or 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. 
* Ciucco figniftes great or excellent. 
The 
