The Limits of the United States

The natural limit of a democracy is the distance from the central point which will just permit the most remote citizen to assemble as often as their public functions demand. Can it be said that the limits of the United States exceed this distance? It will not be said by those who recollect that the Atlantic coast is the longest side of the union, and that during the term of 13 years the representatives of the states have been almost continually assembled. The members from the most distant states are not chargeable with greater intermissions of attendance than those from the states in the neighborhood of Congress. No example is seen of a government wholly popular and founded at the same time wholly upon that principle.