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This sounds like an incredibly obvious observation? Modern liberal democracy comes from the revolutions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Greek poleis were at mo
by qsort 4y ago
This sounds like an incredibly obvious observation?
Modern liberal democracy comes from the revolutions in the 17th and 18th centuries. Greek poleis were at most an inspiration, like the ancient Olympics for the modern ones.
- ogogmad 4y agoFair. He actually had the more radical idea that "Western" democracy owes a lot to pre-Columbus America.
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- wolfram74 4y agoI don't recall the source, but I'm pretty sure some of my k-12 civics courses mentioned something along the lines of benjamin franklin borrowing some concepts from indigenous civil structures.
- whitemary 4y ago> This sounds like an incredibly obvious observation? Unfortunately, there are a lot of people in the US who think American liberal ideals are, in some more-or-less abstract manner, descended from ancient Greece or ancient Rome. Maybe it's our neoclassical state buildings. I'm not sure.