The government of Vermont is in the form of a democratic republic, similar to that of the United States. In 1791, Vermont joined the United States as the fourteenth state.
The Vermont state capital is Montpelier.
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“The tide which, after our former relaxed government, took a violent course towards the opposite extreme, and seemed ready to hang every thing round with the tassils and baubles of monarchy, is now getting back as we hope to a just mean, a government of laws addressed to the reason of the people, and not to their weaknesses.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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