"In classical political theory, compactness was a precondition for a successful republic -- a small population compacted in a small polity that might be free of factions. The audacity of the American experiment was and still is its attempt to have a republic that is big, but in which life nevertheless is conducive to the virtues requisite for self-government, the virtues of self-reliance and self-restraint." - George Will
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