The Confederacy and the Consolidation of the States

A republic of this kind, able to withstand an external force, may support itself without any internal corruptions. If a single member should attempt to usurp the supreme authority, he could not be supposed to have equal authority and credit in all the Confederate states. Should abuse his creep into one part, they are reformed by those that remain sound. The state may be destroyed on one side and not on the other. The Confederacy may be dissolved, and the Confederates preserve their sovereignty. As this government is composed of small republics, it enjoys the internal happiness of each. With respect to its external situation, it is possessed by means of the association of all the advantages of large monarchies.