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Portugal? No invasions or civil wars since the 1800s.

• rypskar 7y ago
  Depends on where you draw the line between revolution and civil war. Portugal had revolutions in 1910, 1933, and 1974
  • lolftwww 7y ago
    On the historical definition of those events. None of those is called a civil war. Maybe for a reason, but I'm no historian. Most of those lasted hours to days, a consisted mainly on raised tensions / coups rather than loss of human life by long armed conformation.
    • squiggleblaz 7y ago
      I guess it depends on the question we're asking and answering. Maybe the wrong question was asked? Does an armed and trained populace prevent a constitutional disorder? It seems that no-one would say the Swiss system was worth imitating if, two or three times since they instituted it, there were military coups including a multi-generational dictatorship. A refined question certainly improves the appearance of the Swiss system without seeming arbitrary. On the other hand, who knows. Maybe the Swiss democracy is like the American democracy - and primarily exists to serve the interests of a well connected minority. It's hard to say it's good to keep a system that preserves the interests of a powerful minority in that kind of context.