September 2023
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New England Townships
Some ‘Yankee’ wisdom (via de Tocqueville)… Each individual is therefore considered to be as enlightened, as virtuous, as strong as any of his fellows. Ok. This means that we can do whatever we want, right…? He obeys society, not at all because he is inferior to those who direct it, or less capable than another Continue reading
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John Adams, small-r ‘republican’…
A little quote I ran into from ~1776: The balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of preserving the balance of power on the side of equal liberty and public virtue is to make the acquisition of land easy to every member of society, Continue reading