...cannot properly be flyled a Commonwealth, but is rather a Confederacy of Seven Sovereign Pn> yinces united together for their common and mutual Defence, without any Dependance one upon the other. But to difcover the Nature of their Government from the firft Springs and Motions, it muft...

...appreciatively described the de-centralized constitution of the United Provinces as 'a Confederacy of Seven Soveraign Provinces united together for their common and mutual defence, without any dépendance one upon In practice, the federal ideal can be twisted an cynically, or fail as dismally,...

...system: This state . . . cannot properly be styled a Commonwealth, but is rather a Confederacy of Seven Soveraign Provinces united together for their common...and mutual defence, without any dependance, one upon the other. But to discover the nature of their Government from the first springs and motions, It must...

...appreciatively described the de-centralized constitution of the United Provinces as 'a Confederacy of Seven Soveraign Provinces united together for their common...and mutual defence, without any dependance one upon 1 In practice, the federal ideal can be twisted an cynically, or fail as dismally, as any ideal. Thus,...

...described the de-centralized constitution of the United Provinces as 'a Confederacy of Seven Sovereign Provinces united together for their common and mutual defence, without any dependance one upon 1 In practice, the federal ideal can be twisted an cynically, or fail as dismally, as any ideal. Thus,...

...Utrecht,} that it cannot properly be styled a Commonwealth, but is rather a Confederacy of Seven Sovereign Provinces united together for their common and mutual defence, without any dependance one upon the other. But to discover the nature of their Government from the first springs and motions, It must...