Historically, a republic does best when its people are self-sufficient, living within their moderate means, where government is a part-time hobby for the better off — and doesn’t do anything that will outrage the rest of the people — and where the principal matter of state is to leave well enough alone, especially in foreign affairs.
Once a republic starts building an empire (empire building always starts out as a “defensive” or “premptive” kind of thing) and grows extravagantly wealthy (wealth is used as “proof” that the republic is really doing well) it doesn’t take long for corruption to rot its institutions and its people themselves.
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