Yet, without power and independence, a town may contain good subjects, but it can have no active citizens.

Another important fact is that the township of New England is so constituted as to excite the warmest of human affections, without arousing the ambitious passions of the heart of man.

The officers of the country are not elected, and their authority is very limited.

Even the State is only a second-rate community, whose tranquil and obscure administration offers no inducement sufficient to draw men away from the circle of their interests into the turmoil of public affairs.

The federal government confers power and honor on the men who conduct it; but these individuals can never be very numerous.