The type of government that demands your respect would have to be an inexpedient one, because it wouldn't be a resource, it would be one that would be easily corrupted and misguided.
Thoreau accepts the motto "That government is best which governs least". He would have it implemented rapidly and more systematically than the government of his time .
The best type of government in Thoreau's eyes would have to be "That government is best which governs not at all" and that will only happen when "men" are prepared for it .
He is asking the readers to speak against such a government and to reform it themselves. To make that change. His argument is amazing, fantastic even, not because of the topic but to how passionate he was and how well written it was.
I would use the fact that he isn't in the modern society and that he doesn't even follow all the governments rules as a counter, but because I would've supported this, I would have, probably, written arguments by his side? I don't know.
great job
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