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7327. REPUBLICANISM ( Governmental ), Catholic principle of.—

The catholic
principle of republicanism is that every
people may establish what form of government
they please, and change it as they
please, the will of the nation being the only
thing essential. [419]
The Anas. Washington ed. ix, 129. Ford ed., i, 214.
(1792)

 
[419]

“I took the occasion,” says Jefferson, “furnished
by Pinckney's letter of Sep. 19, asking instructions
how to conduct himself with respect to the French
Revolution to lay down this principle.”—Editor.