In Machiavelli's time there were hardly any republics outside some Italian city-states. For several centuries, philosophers interested in political forms preferred the monarchy: Bodino , Hobbes , Locke , Hegel . With two important nuances: Rousseau and Kant called any politically well-ordered state a republic, whatever its political form. Beyond the brief English experience of the seventeenth century, the first republic that, after Rome, existed in a vast territory was

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