While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a sta…

John Adams
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago. ✨ An Extensive Republic: Print, Culture, and Society in the New Nation, 1790-1840. Book by Robert A. Gross and Mary Kelley, 2010.
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