It may likewise be worthy of remarking, that a monarchical country can suffer nothing in its popular happiness by an alliance with a republican one; and republican governments have never been destroyed by their external connections, but by some internal convulsion or contrivance.
Paine argues that alliances between monarchical and republican countries do not harm popular happiness.
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