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as feasible and successful cooperative constitutional orders. In his view, a confederation could be built on successive levels of political community where each community pursues common interests. A village was a union of families, a town was a union of
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gave citizens the right to resist tyrannical government and sovereignty rested with the community, not the ruler. Therefore
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logic. As time passed, his political canon was read less and the barriers to interpreting
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idea of a universal brotherhood, thus he combined the Greco-Roman ideal of an association that was governed by reciprocal relationships with the
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