common stock, and to overbalance the obligations of duty. Hence it is that history furnishes us with so many mortifying examples of the prevalency of foreign corruption in republican governments. How much this contributed to the ruin of the ancient commonwealths has been already delineated.
republics are more prone to foreign corruption than monarchies because a monarch has a direct r interest in success of the government even though many monarchs have sacriie people for personal ambitions
