Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1866-02-20

tie, a different vein, with precision. says. il
most suggestive words, that every political society is
sort OF community or partnership (Aristos. Potitie.
the good Book Ill., v) that il is the hes
plan admit participation in the governing power
be admitted with safety where large mum
bers are excluded there will be dseonIent and danger
Put b'Is OK NJ cap w. ana 'nat @ ~ "hsh me omo 0ne, IN a
theirs must be called good government" (Ib0 Ccer
says. A Republic the good of the whole people
But by people do not assembly OF men,
accord respecting rights and common enJoymsn
OF the public veal (L1e RepHsiiea, I,v) And then
again place the Roman philosopher :. Lib
dwelling except aoher
the la1s are equal am the power of public opinion
premo" (Ibd cap. xrsL But all these requirements
aspirations applicable 10 government Of whatever
and well known That Cicero recorded his prefer
ence for tempered by admxture of The
three different kinds that not advanced in our
deiniIon unIes. insist that our Republic should have
all those virtues which accorded 10 the ideal Common
wealth. And yet there are two principles which all thes'
the first JUSTICE and The second
The duty OF seeking The general ~eliars
cous and nappcsble Governments IN all ages hay been
He'd Republics, which can be example 10 Indeed
er Nimrod down to nsulted parioned Poland yyhch
has been called Republic In 1872, only few
Russia Austria and Prussia after dividing Poland undertook
establish Fundamental laws for this conquered
| which follows.
The of Poland shall be forever Free
onssias IL s stId PI,efFs Is
aud the equilibrium of the three estates namely the king
the Senate, and the .quetan order John Adams Horks
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debate a. republican, IN form.''
adoption tie Constitution the competent
these examples. Alexander Hamilton John Adams
here on common ground. The former the brief OF
the Constitution, thus exhibits the
forms OF govsrnnent 10 winch the term Republic has
been applied
applied arisocracIes a. 10 Rome under kings 2
thoue eh The same. - Netherlands though
StadIhoder and hered tary mobiles. 81 To Poland,
though arisoeraoy and monarchy o) To Great Britain,
though monarcAy' (Hamtons |orLs, vol a., 463.)
John Adams, his Defence OF the Constitution of The
nIted States Immediately adoption
National Constitution thus conourz " tn Hamilton;
all the words all languages, perhaps there
has been much abused IN tins way a, the words
Republic. Commonwealth, and Popular State. In the Re
Pa6ieGrAn Coeeto, 81 winch tfeS- ae hi's aud odd
OF them Incorrect France, spain,
Portugal the four great empires the Baayonian, Per
nominated Repubhcs'" John Adams H0rks, vol " p.
la hs old age, the patriarch expressed the
with equal toroe;
every under heaven that OF Turkey thai
spa n a. well as that OF Atheu Rome OF Geneva
and san Marno tlbd, vol p 3.s Lrtier u 81 u4ret
Ana then again he SAID
In some writing another OF mine happened,
esiao, drop the phrase The ord rspa5Ae,
used may signify anything every thing OF nothing For
thus have been PEELED, ut fWenIy ihry years
Il many stones were thrown AZ 81 stephen
when - Paul held he Clothes OF the sIo"ers But The
apuor~n literal strict. solemn truth To speak techn
- Rs ,rd maj of PaispJ are =. stfctF, re,biirs
- -. "a 4sry i-l49 -
Ia ths ster remars Adams simply repeats he
says treatise, WIDEN he s.l- England and Poland
regal repabtes. ib,d, rel P. a59}
PLAN fathers hen lney adopted Tie guar
suy' OF republican OF government" intend
sh,ng when at least the lace,
could be made certain But ts excludes TIE authority 81
noonsrous and neonsistaht examples They did not u-e
signify any thing, even hing nothing =
dd they words hoh We're as applicable to England and
Poland to Tie United states Therefore, cannot
when put aside all these examples which, however they
may illustrate the definition OF republican eoHernuent N
The past utterly cut of place guide u the lnerpre
tauoI oi our Consttucn Something bs.r must be found
put as de al-o The dednon. European writer. sad
have vaeueness uncertainty ot political truth
that time ia Europe. Among these higher
ti4fit. dian taute.Gueu q-.tca science
r ma br a Il bt- rrdecetsI, @ es iie ke7e and
furnishing satisfactory guide lie
sua nv virtue" say. county
winch tns love OF kqualt In's beautiful but, with
aFistoerNcy - under Tie Kepubo "
he the people pa uass have he sovefesu
e where Js sovereign po~ la The hands
60 part = tas peops' When defining democracy - lie
erpesse. Importance suffrage Of the fun
aneutals government saying among things.
regulate - 0A0n the suffrage should
be gwen, a IA monarchy 10 know who II. The uionaTon
gmp>e Of truth there definition al Repuol
interpreting Constitution afistoersoy where
cannot ma Just plaas our political system It nsv be
Republican of government, according Monies
one OF tue abiest of the predecessors OF Mone.quIeu IN
modern times was the tfenchnan, John bodn no Wrote
centuries earlier. lie the term RepIblc
used by me snoIent writers, 10 embrace Monarchy
Of Renitcs -t-.nm rernrapEbcsr.n4 genera In the Re
public The power of Peaes monarchy
the oil few Paoos, II arisocracy if
power of all, pens democracy. Pr
ceedng further that Democracy where all or
the major part OF al ciuzens MAJOR paFS erIHa" etri4a
collected together have the supreme power Bodln de Re
P4o"6a Lo H. cap ~ Here Ihe Pll"s p9*I pa plainly lo'
lows the rule OF Jurisprudence IN Tie Gaze OF corporations
the exclusion of
IN other respects >sHs hohlng oi eqGas oi oI o
that toueone OF the republican idea the dependence
other defriuons which may be put aside THU,
instance, has been often said, that Republic "a
sovenrn and men" and this saying found
favor with among our IA hers John Adams U@-k'
thai su6h government would be the KIN sdom
But tins condition. though marking an advanced degree Of
civilization and of course essential TO Republic cannot
recogn zed decsYe On It's lace II Is vague from IFS
comprehensiveness III enough 10 say that would en-
brace England whose government our la'hes teh"eu III
build Republic And ill further, il would throw
ITS shield over government winch had tanned i"'qn''y
There is plausible by Miller. the learned
the work the British Constitution, who states
ny alphabetically that by r. public be meant govern
which here IS no King or hereditary ehet msss
be rejected leaving arsocraeies and olsarohie IN
Sometimes it has said, government with
elective Cnef Magistrate Republic. Here again moth
ing ars,ocrscy ogarchy which obviously may
coexis, Magistrate, OF
Venice where the elected doge surrounded hy an oil
garchy OF nobles aud IN OF Holland, where the eie1
Stakeholder, pnce surrounded by princes But
other instances which make this definition unsat
isactoy n not absurd The Pope oil Rome an elective
Chief Magistrate also Is the Grand Lama but surely
he q
the defnen founded the elective character
Chief Magistrate also reject another founded
sovereignty OF more than man. IL has been
said positively by who has written much on tins subject
definition OF Republic Is that IN which the
resides than man. John Adams
vol 3S) But this definition viii embrace
q racies and ogarchIes.
conclude these rejected definitions with that of Dr.
johnson in his Dictionary
(Republek )Commonlo ealth, hioh the
lodged than (Z)CommOn saterast the PHbtiek
All these def utons little 10 the purpose the
vulgar error, ehroniced by SIR homas Browne that
only in republics the saying Of Rou-se au at
that society gods would govern themselves
ratically the remark OF John Adams that all
elsewhere for the illumination which
the instead OF looking home, and have
history example of their county They have
inappiIc able deniIionsfoig
fathers by positive conduct, by solemn declarations
by opinions and by public all IN harmony and
heiming testimory have exhibited
their idea Republican Government which Is
applicable They the natural
o Constitution Mr.. Fox, the eminent Eng
exclaimed debate, that,
if by some nerpos,ton of Divine Providence all the
lived the world, assembled together,
could invent olerable Constitution; mean
ing course, that Constitution must be derived
convictions and from invention There
the remark and it in this spirit
turn from which ha. ouly this value that it
shows ttis there the past interpret the
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