Excerpt from Bodies Politic and Their GovernmentsWhen we are reading or Speaking about times for which historical details are scanty, we are unable to distinguish any one community or any one body politic from that which went before it or from that which came after it: then we are compelled to think and Speak of successions of communities or Of successions of bodies politic which we know to have been closely connected with one another, though we usually do not know exactly how they were connected. A succession of communities some how connected together is called a people. There is no name which denotes a succession of connected bodies politic which are not. Single communities, and denotes nothing more: when I need to mention such a succession of bodies politic I usually call it a group of peoples, or a composite people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.