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What three reasons does Thoreau give for his loss of respect for the government?

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1) It does not keep the country free.
2) It does not settle the West.
3) It does not educate.
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I saw that the State was halfwitted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it...Resistance to Civil Government by Henry David Thoreau
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