"Ubi vero juſtitia non eſt, nec jus poteſt eſſe; quod enim jure fit, profecto juſte fit; quod autem fit injuſte, nec jure fieri poteſt. Non enim jura dicenda ſunt, vel putanda, iniqua hominum conſtituta, cum illud etiam ipſi jus eſſe dicant quod de juſtitis fonte manaverit; falſumque fit, quod a quibuſdam non recte ſentientibus dici ſolet, id jus eſſe, quod ei, qui plus poteſt, utile eſt." According to this, a ſimple monarchy, if it could in reality be what it pretends to be—a government of laws, might be juſtly denominated a republic. A limited monarchy, therefore, eſpecially when limited by two independent branches, an ariſtocratical and a democratical power in the conſtitution, may with ſtrict propriety be called by that name.
If Cicero and Tacitus could reviſit the earth, and learn that the Engliſh nation had reduced the great idea to practice, and brought it nearly to perfection, by giving each diviſion a power to defend itſelf by a negative; had found it the moſt ſolid and durable government, as well as the moſt free; had obtained, by means of it, a proſperity among civilized nations, in an enlightened age, like that of the Romans among barbarians: and that the Americans, after having enjoyed the benefits of ſuch a conſtitution a century and a half, were adviſed by ſome of the greateſt philoſophers and politicians of the age
