[ikka]

He believed it unlikely that a Catholic country could nurture a true Republic.

Unfortunately the evidence some 200 years later shows he had a good point... the Protestant countries came much much sooner to a republic.

[sobieski]

Unless you don’t count the Polish/Lithuanian Confederation, which was a Republic with an elected king run by a Senate or the Venetian Republic.

[wideawake]

Unfortunately the evidence some 200 years later shows he had a good point... the Protestant countries came much much sooner to a republic.

Except, of course, that Adams and the Framers looked to Switzerland as an important example of a successful republic. And Switzerland was an entirely Catholic country for the first three centuries of its republican system.

And France had a republic before any of the major Protestant European countries, with the exception of Holland.