Funny, this made me think about high school history. When I took the AP test, I argued that the US declared independence from Britain not over the issue of economics but over the issue of democracy. I was derided, of course, by my history teacher, who believed I was naive to think that the Founding Fathers cared more about their own pocket books than self-representation. If they didn't care about self-representation, I wondered, why did they settle on a federal republic of states with representative democracy as the model for each state and the federal government? They rejected monarchy in favor of republicanism. They chose democracy.
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