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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But What Is Republican. The True Idea of A Republic Is ‘An Empire of Laws, and Not Men

“There is no good government but what is republican. [T]he true idea of a republic is ‘an empire of laws, and not of men.’” – John Adams (1776)

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First Principles: There Is No Good Government But That Which is Republican

“There is no good government but what is republican. That the only valuable part of the British constitution is so; for the true idea of a republic is “an empire of laws, and not of men.” That, as a republic … Continue reading

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