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You could make a good argument that the South was not a democracy and the civil war was an overthrow of their aristocracy; not a war between two Democracies. J
by pnutjam 7y ago
You could make a good argument that the South was not a democracy and the civil war was an overthrow of their aristocracy; not a war between two Democracies.
Just look at the Constitutions of pre-civil war Southern states.
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/suppressedbooka00gwca https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/suppressedbooka0...
- Retric 7y agoInteresting perspective. Some people arguable if the US is currently a democracy with for example the 4+ million people in DC and the territories effectively lacking the vote. IMO, what defines a democracy is large segments of the population having a meaningful vote rather than requiring some ideal implementation.