> JDG wrote: > > > > Thus, despite our colloquial > > speech, the US, the UK, and the Netherlands > > are republics, not democracies.
Alberto Monteiro wrote: > > 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 :-) > That takes a great deal of stretching to even get anywhere close to being an accurate description of U.S. Government, even though much of U.S. history is about the effort to manifest our destiny. ;-) -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
