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"Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it; and exist in much greater clearness, and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection: but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. [...] Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants." (60)
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