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Tragically, Lincoln made a liberal democracy out of a democratic republic. More tragically, Washington made a democratic republic out of a constitutional monarchy.


Yup, poor America. Imagine what could have been, if only they remained under a king.


Well, slavery would have ended 40 years earlier, among other things.


Not at all.

Slavery ended in the British Empire once Jamaica and Bardados became unimportant: trade competition with America, Industrial Revolution.

Slavery in America ended when economics of forced labor declined (but hastened 20 years by a civil war).




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