Thursday, October 20, 2005, 3:19:53 AM, P. wrote:
PJA> The United States is the oldest Constitutional Republic in existence.
That's quite funny pissing contest :) US were a republic as much as
the old Rome was. Id est only small part of the population had any
constitutional rights. Indians and other people of colour probably
didn't see much difference between the British colonies and the first
US in 1776... Not until a lot of time later.
That said, I don't mean the talk lowly of the system there - it sure
was a model for many other countries, including the first Czechoslovak
republic in 1918 (fortunately now, we no longer have a strong
presidential republic...).
I wrote that just that I find it funny, or even laughable and kind of
stupid, when somebody talks about how "his" state was the oldest
Contitutional Republic in existence... small minded patriotism, in my
opinion.
Good light!
fra
