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Excerpt from Experience the Test of Government: In Eighteen Essays The remarks which compose the following papers, were written without regard to system or style; and, as the objects presented themselves, in a situation favorable for dispassionate observation, and out of the vortex of party passions. They are not personal, therefore cannot give offence. They develope the actual operations of government generally, but more immediately point out the enormous abuses which flow from the exorbitant power vested in the executive. There are repetitions, but they will be found useful, as they are intended to place the same object in different points of view, and thereby render the facts more clear; and, what is of importance in discussion, familiar to the reader. They inculcate the principle, that it is necessary for the people, to keep alive the spirit of investigation - to have frequent recurrence to first principles; and thereby guard against that tendency so natural to the mind of man, of accumulating and perpetuating power; which commences by degrees, grows bulky and formidable in its progress, and if not timeously prevented in its effects, must end in subverting every free government, and terminate in a hideous and tyrannic aristocracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.