It’s time for Thomas Jefferson's village-states

His small, democratic communities would revive and defend our republic.

It’s time for Thomas Jefferson's village-states His small, democratic communities would revive and defend our republic. Bryce Tolpen Mar 30, 2025 61 54 17 Share Let’s create lots of democracies. We’d create one for every sixty to a hundred citizens or so. Each democracy would discuss, decide on, and execute policy for everything in its neighborhood. We'd keep our Constitution's fundamental structure—its federalism, its guarantee of each state’s republican government, and its three balanced branches of national government. But we'd extend the Constitution's federalism upward to the associationa

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