Paraguay
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Named by Southey as the site of the most imperfect Utopian attempt at preventing moral evils.
and undoubtedly the greater part of them may be prevented, though it is only in Paraguay (the most imperfect of Utopias) that any attempt at prevention has been carried into effect.
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
Named as the location associated with Francia's despotism.
If one portion of the State governments should be republican, like Vermont, where suffrage is open to all—and another portion should be oligarchies, like South Carolina, and the other slave States—another portion limited monarchies, like England—another portion ecclesiastical, like that of the Pope of Rome, or that of the ancient Jews—and another portion absolute despotisms, like that of Nicholas, …