Combining the Advantages of Small and Large States

Montesquieu

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Montesquieu

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If a republic be small, it is destroyed by a foreign force; if it be large, it is ruined by an internal imperfection.

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University of Ottawa, Canada
Dimitrios Karmis (Assistant Professor of Political Studies) (Assistant Professor of Political Studies)
Université de Montréal, Canada
Wayne Norman (McConnell Professor of Business Ethics) (McConnell Professor of Business Ethics)

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Montesquieu (2005). Combining the Advantages of Small and Large States. In: Karmis, D., Norman, W. (eds) Theories of Federalism: A Reader. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-05549-1_6

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