Smaller, not larger, political divisions

[AlanM]

"Withdrawing myself within the shell of our own State, I have long contemplated a division of it into hundreds or wards, as the most fundamental measure for securing good government, and for instilling the principles and exercise of self-government into every fibre of every member of our commonwealth." Thomas Jefferson

[tracysaboe]

The biggest the population of any government should be about 100 people then? I'm game for that.

Perhaps a jeffersonian Minarchist found found a town, and righten right into this city-town constitution would be that any group of people has the right to secede if the town becomes greator then 100 people.

Tracy

[Russell Kanning]

You also couldn't afford too many career bureaucrats for a few hundred people.  :icon_dance:

[FrankChodorov]

"Withdrawing myself within the shell of our own State, I have long contemplated a division of it into hundreds or wards, as the most fundamental measure for securing good government, and for instilling the principles and exercise of self-government into every fibre of every member of our commonwealth." Thomas Jefferson

this is the cornerstone of the Second Vermont Republic's political philosophy as described in "The Vermont Papers"...