No. 3: "It is not a new observation that the people of any country (if, like the Americans, intelligent and wellinformed)(...)"
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No. 3: Good points on the value of gathering the best talents to rule a confederation. Shame it doesn't work with bankers & economists.
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No. 3: Many interesting thoughts difficult to share in tweet format. The average sentence in this document is more than 140 characters long.
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No. 3: Fewer just causes of war under one federal gov. - true, but the neg. consequences of unjust wars multiply. See: all recent US wars.
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No. 3: Interesting to see how comprehensively the neocons under Bush and Obama undermined the mechanisms of the republic for preventing war.
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3: Note on the pride of states leading to self-justification and a refusal to admit error. Unfortunately works the same for the US.