...These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; & that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,...

...These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...federal republic, for all concerns foreign and federal ; 6. that of the State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; 3. the county republics,...

...These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their Governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...preservation. We should thus marshal our Government into, first, the general Federal Republic, for all concerns foreign and Federal ; second, thai of the State,...

...then be a distribution of civil power, according to the following scale : 1. The general government for all concerns, foreign and federal. 2. That of the state for those general concerns * The wards proposed by Mr. Jefferson no otherwise resemble the townships of...

...Jefferson says, — " The townships of New England are the vital principles of their governments, and hare proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...of self-government, and for its preservation."— Correspondence, vol. iv. p. 297. citizens, or against citizens of other states, or aliens. In these...

...ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The...State, for what relates to our own citizens exclusively ; S. The county republics, for the duties and concerns of the county ; and, 4. The ward republics,...

...These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...the perfect exercise of self-government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all...

...called townships in v England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved them•es the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of -government, and for its preservation.1 We should thus marshal our Government >, 1. The general Federal...

...natural counterpart in the General Court and the town meeting, which Thomas Jefferson rightly called "the wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man for the perfect exercise of self-government and its preservation." Yet this liberty was not anarchy unchecked, nor a Utopia that overlooked the selfish...

...These wards, called townships in New England, are the vital principle of their governments, and have proved themselves the wisest invention ever devised...exercise of self-government and for its preservation. We shall thus marshal our Government into, 1. The general Federal republic, for all concerns foreign and...