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Re:You can fool some of the people, all of the time by pnutjam on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:55AM (#21473685)
You could make a good argument that the South was not a democracy and the civil war was an overthrow of their aristocracy; not a war between two Democracies.

Just look at the Constitutions of pre-civil war Southern states. https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/suppressedbooka0...

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Re:You can fool some of the people, all of the time by Retric on Thursday November 07, 2019 @01:05PM (#21475601)
Interesting perspective. Some people arguable if the US is currently a democracy with for example the 4+ million people in DC and the territories effectively lacking the vote.

IMO, what defines a democracy is large segments of the population having a meaningful vote rather than requiring some ideal implementation.

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