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Tragically, Lincoln made a liberal democracy out of a democratic republic. More tragically, Washington made a democratic republic out of a constitutional monar
by sverige 10y ago
Tragically, Lincoln made a liberal democracy out of a democratic republic. More tragically, Washington made a democratic republic out of a constitutional monarchy.
- oh_sigh 10y agoYup, poor America. Imagine what could have been, if only they remained under a king.
- sverige 10y agoWell, slavery would have ended 40 years earlier, among other things.
- paulddraper 10y agoNot at all. Slavery ended in the British Empire once Jamaica and Bardados became unimportant: trade competition with America, Industrial Revolution. Slavery in America ended when economics of forced labor declined (but hastened 20 years by a civil war).