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Pantisocracy (meaning "government by all") was a utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poet

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Pantisocracy (meaning "government by all") was a utopian scheme devised in 1794 by the poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry....
s Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an England poet, critic and Philosophy who was, along with his friend William Wordsworth, one of the founders of the Romanticism in England and one of the Lake Poets....
and Robert Southey

Robert Southey

Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic poetry school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843....
for an egalitarian community. They originally intended to establish such a community on the banks of the Susquehanna River

Susquehanna River

The Susquehanna River is a river located in the northeastern United States. At approximately 444 mi long, it is the longest river on the East Coast of the United States and the 16th longest in the United States....
in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, but by 1795 Southey had doubts about the viability of this and proposed moving the project to Wales

Wales

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. The two men were unable to agree on the location, causing the project to collapse.