THE NEW YORK ASTOR, LENOX AND 1899 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by LOUISA JOHNSON, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the District of Connecticut. NO. 1. CIVIL GOVERNMENT. , by ates, b "I have lived Sir, a long time, (82 years) and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow can not fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid."-FRANKLIN, in the Philadelphia Convention. 1. THE period is comparatively recent since inquiries began to be successfully made into the best system of Civil Polity. These inquiries appear to have been first instituted in the seventeenth century, when the attention of some of the best minds in England was directed to the subject. 2. The doctrine of the divine right of kings was early asserted, and endeavored to be sustained by argument. Among the more prominent of its advocates in England was Sir Robert Fil |