In a well-constituted state, individuals cannot be allowed to live as they please.

Why do I say this?
Because I am going to enact that the bridegroom shall not absent himself from the common meals.

They were instituted originally on the occasion of some war, and, though deemed singular when first founded, they have tended greatly to the security of states.

There was a difficulty in introducing them, but there is no difficulty in them now.
There is, however, another institution about which I would speak, if I dared.

I may preface my proposal by remarking that disorder in a state is the source of all evil, and order of all good.