Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile · Search for states in alt.philosophy
Author: Day Brown
Date: Sep 18, 2008 20:15
... others. Whatever the government was, the cost of that management was calculated by the traders, who if they did not like it, went some other way. Machiavelli speaks glowingly of the German city states he saw, where a competent craftsman could, and did, vote with his feet to those which were better run. A city in Bavaria, whose name escapes me, stood without invasion for 1000 years. ...
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