> Britain ran a global empire using this model, why wouldn't it work for the US? The “global empire” was systematically disenfranchised under that model, which

> Britain ran a global empire using this model, why wouldn't it work for the US? The “global empire” was systematically disenfranchised under that model, which is a big reason why it broke up, and that was specifically called out by the US when it left. I mean, there are arguably good examples of parliamentary democracy working at significant scale in a state, but the UK’s government at home while the empire was managed through a bunch of other systems is very much not one of them.