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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by pron on Monday October 28, 2013 @07:01AM (#6626246)
I didn't say "no notable events". I said no political revolutions (although the civil war almost counts).
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Re:Cash to the poor: Giving money directly works surprisingl... by adventured on Monday October 28, 2013 @10:16AM (#6627028)
If the US Civil War doesn't qualify as a political revolution, then I would argue nothing possibly could.

It started as a political argument in fact. It was about how to govern, and what rights the states possessed as part of the United States. Every aspect of the Civil War and its outcomes were political in nature.

It was absolutely a political revolution first and foremost. The war settled the political dispute.

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