The Importance of Size in Government

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In a decentralized world, individuals would have more influence over the institutions that affect them. The inability of the average person to affect the politics of a nation is precipitating political malaise and conditioning people for totalitarian form of rule. In the decentralized city-states of ancient Greece, citizens were politically active because their opinions mattered.

“…the world would be most happily governed if it consisted not of a few aggregations…with their accompaniments of despotism and tyrannic rule, but of a society of small States.” Saint Augustine, The Political Aspects of Saint Augustine’s City of God Should the states and provinces of nations separate and become politically autonomous? Should counties, cities, […]

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