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

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

1) It does not keep the country free.
2) It does not settle the West.
3) It does not educate.

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