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Nope, totally different reference. It's to Machiavelli, who distinguished between "Frankish kingdoms" and "Turkish kingdoms". Turkish kingdoms have strong centr
by beat 10y ago
Nope, totally different reference. It's to Machiavelli, who distinguished between "Frankish kingdoms" and "Turkish kingdoms". Turkish kingdoms have strong central governments, with local administration subservient to the center. Frankish kingdoms have a much weaker central government, with much power and decision-making in the hands of local leaders.
The US is a Frankish kingdom, in Machiavellian terms.
- thatcat 10y agoIt seems that the us is a hybrid of the turkish and frankish models considering the split income taxation structure with signigantly more going to federal level.
- beat 10y agoIt's not about taxation. It's about control. The big difference between the US and a Machiavellian Frankish kingdom is that we have more or less a single military, rather than each state having its own army and lending that to the central government.