In the case of the USA specifically, at that time and place it was very much in vogue among the educated to be into all the trappings of classical Roman and Greek history. This is also why Greco-Roman style columns and other architectural fripperies were so popular both on plantation houses and government buildings. The founding fathers lifted no small part of their thoughts on democracy from the Greeks.
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Hey mod, why you kneecapping your community like this?
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New rules still in the baby stage of it. But doing house cleaning even of the posts and comments I made. Long Story Short trying to whip this thing into shape. Any questions please dm or pm us and we will be happy to address them.
US democracy drew heavy inspiration from British democracy. The main differences were that there wasn’t a (largely depowered) monarch at the head, and that Americans actually got to participate in it.
It’s important to remember that what caused the American Revolution wasn’t the sudden urge for a new form of government - American colonies had been electing their own governments for over 100 years at that point. What caused the American Revolution was the sudden attempt by Britain to impose taxes on Americans without letting them participate in elections for the British parliament, which they were nominally legally entitled to do, as British subjects.
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Its a mash-up of European land ownership shit like the Magna Carta and stuff they lifted from the Haudenosaunee. They were just trying to codify a land owning oligarchy that already loosely organized their various cartels.
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Well basically they had a European land-owning nobles mindset, but a bit less inclusively liberal than was starting to trend over there. They were looking for a way to organize their little plantations to assert control over the cities, and they saw that the Iroquois Confederacy had a pretty good system of organizing and decision making, so they made a shitty version of that.
