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Every other set of men who have assumed the office of legislation, and framing institutions for future ages, with far less right to such an assumption than the founders of the American Republic, regarded their work as the wisest and the best that these possibly have been produced illustrious men looked upon the past history of their species and saw that it was the history of his mistakes, and his sufferings arising from his mistakes ; they observed the superiority of their own work to all the works which had preceded it, and they judged it could : possible that other political institutions would be discovered having the same relation to those which they had established which they bear to those which have preceded them.
It constitutionally acknowledges the progress of human improvement, and is framed under the limitation of the probability of more simple upon the inexpressible advantages 1 4 <±A Philosophical views of political View of Reform science being rendered There is a law by applicable to human life. which the constitution is reserved for revision every ten years. Every other set of men who have assumed the office of legislation, and framing institutions for future ages, with far less right to such an assumption than the founders of the American Republic, regarded their work as the wisest and the best that these possibly have been produced illustrious men looked upon the past history of their species and saw that it was the history of his mistakes, and his sufferings arising from his mistakes ; they observed the superiority of their own work to all the works which had preceded it, and they judged it could : possible that other political institutions would be discovered having the same relation to those which they had established which they bear to those which have preceded them.
