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7329. REPUBLICANISM ( Governmental ), Happiness and.—

I conscientiously
believe that governments founded in republican
principles are more friendly to the happiness
of the people at large, and especially


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of a people so capable of self-government as
ours.—
To David Howell. Washington ed. v, 554.
(M. 1810)