Every branch of our civil polity supports and is supported, regulates and is regulated by the rest.
With respect to their interior polity, our colonies are properly of three sorts; provincial establishments, proprietary governments, and charter governments.
This word See ms also to embrace legislation and administration of government.
1. The constitution or general fundamental principles of government of any class of citizens, considered in an appropriate character, or as a subordinate state.
Were the whole christian world to revert back to the original model, how far more simple, uniform and beautiful would the church appear,and how far more agreeable to the ecclesiastical polity instituted by the holy apostles.
