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24. As to the means applying as above to appropriate
moral aptitude — there is not one of them, of which an exemplification
of them many not be seen in the Constitution of the
Anglo American United States.
25. Under that Constitution is so far as depends on Government,
has uncontrovertibly been and continues to be enjoyed,
a greater quantity of happiness, in proportion to population,
than in any other political community, in these or any other times.
26. By that one example is excluded and for ever all ground
for any such apprehension real of pretended as that of inaptitude on
the part of the people at large, as to the making choice of their
over Agents for conducting the business of Government
27 No where else has such universal satisfaction been manifested:
satisfaction with the form of the Government, satisfaction
with the mode in which, satisfaction with the hands by
which, the business of it has been carried
on. No other political
community is there ir has there ever been — in which by so large
a proportion of the population, so large a part has been constantly
taken in the conduct and examination of the affairs
of Government. No other in which the part so taken has
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