Throughout the course of history, mankind has been recorded to corrupt itself. Men have grown tired of simply surviving; they have had to take and conquer others. Absolute monarchies control wealth, land, and even lives of men. The conditions of the people were solely dependent on the conditions of the one who was in power in that particular place and time. History has proven that most men rule unwisely in their kingdoms. To avoid tyrannical rule, some make an attempt to set up a government in which the people ruled themselves. This form of government is called a democracy, or "rule of the people." History has also revealed through the Greeks and the French Revolution, that a democracy that gives complete power to the people, "absolute democracy", is nothing more than a short prelude to tyranny.
A new democracy was established in America with certain unique characteristics in its structure and establishment. America's tyranny never came. America's duration of holding to......
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