In a small State, like that of Connecticut for instance, where cutting a canal or laying down a road is a momentous political question, where the State has no army to pay and no wars to carry on, and where much wealth and much honor cannot be bestowed upon the chief citizens, no form of government can be more natural or more appropriate than that of a republic.
Connecticut bezalako nazio txiki batean, adibidez,-non ubide bat irekitzea edo bide bat egitea den arazo politiko handiena, non Estatuak ez duen ordaindu beharreko armadarik edo mantendu beharreko gerrarik, eta non agintzen dutenei ezin zaien aberastasun askorik edo aintza handirik eman-, ezin da ezer naturalagorik edo gauzen izaerarekiko ezer egokiagorik imajinatu errepublika baino.