Re: France's influence

[Alberto Monteiro]

JDG wrote: 
> 
> Thus, despite our colloquial  
> speech, the US, the UK, and the Netherlands are republics, 
> not democracies.  
>  
If you want to nitpick, I would restrict UK and the 
Netherlands to republics. The USA would be an 
_empire_, because it's a coalition of republics under 
an Emperor :-) 
 
Alberto Monteiro 
 
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