"In all matters of government the State tolerates no intermediate agent between itself and the people, and in general business it directs the people by its own immediate influence."
Although they professed to support "states' rights," many proslavery activists wanted a stronger federal government that could force slavery on the western territories and deny local sovereignty to territorial residents.
All else being equal, a physically large country provides regimes with more opportunities to wage more war, collect more taxes, and control more people.
Jamaica is on the road to becoming a republic, but will that lead to economic freedom or to the statism that has held back that country since independence from Great Britain?
