Republican Empire: Alexander Hamilton on War and Free GovernmentThe republics of Greece and Rome proved incapable of waging war effectively and remaining free at the same time. The record of modern republics is not much more encouraging. How, then, did the United States manage to emerge victorious from the world wars of this century, including the Cold War, and still retain its fundamental liberties? For Karl Friedrich Walling, this unprecedented accomplishment was the work of many hands and many generations, but