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3587. GOVERNMENTS (American), Reforming.—

We can surely boast of having set
the world a beautiful example of a government
reformed by reason alone without
bloodshed. But the world is too far oppressed
to profit by the example.—
To E. Rutledge. Washington ed. ii, 435. Ford ed., v, 42.
(P. 1788)