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First Principles: To Be Respected Be Respectable

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 62, 1788      

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First Principles: For A Government To Be Respected, It Must Be Respectable

“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” — James Madison, in Federalist 62  

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