The Jeffersonian cyclopedia; a comprehensive collection of the views of Thomas Jefferson classified and arranged in alphabetical order under nine thousand titles relating to government, politics, law, education, political economy, finance, science, art, literature, religious freedom, morals, etc.; |
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7403. REPUBLICS, Size of.—[further continued].
The late chapter of our
history furnishes * * * a new proof of the
falsehood of Montesquieu's doctrine, that a
republic can be preserved only in a small territory.
The reverse is the truth. Had our
territory been even a third only of what it is,
we were gone.—
To Nathaniel Niles. Washington ed. iv, 376.
Ford ed., viii, 24.
(W.
March. 1801)
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