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Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
democracy Elections, the losers accepting them, and the rules that keep power answerable to voters.
By ingrafting representation upon democracy, we arrive at a system of government capable of embracing and confederating all the various interests and every extent of territory and population; and that also with advantages as much superior to hereditary government, as the republic of letters is to hereditary literature.
Where this was said
↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org
All 22 korrents from this piecethis one is 15th
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