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How did the US or any countries founding fathers come up with a democracy? The couldn't have pulled it out of thin air..was it a plan long before they came to the state? (lemmy.world)
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[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Its a mash-up of European land ownership shit like the Magna Carta and stuff they lifted from the Haudenosaunee. They were just trying to codify a land owning oligarchy that already loosely organized their various cartels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haudenosaunee

[–] Patnou@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you mind expounding on your statement?

[–] BigTuffAl@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

Well basically they had a European land-owning nobles mindset, but a bit less inclusively liberal than was starting to trend over there. They were looking for a way to organize their little plantations to assert control over the cities, and they saw that the Iroquois Confederacy had a pretty good system of organizing and decision making, so they made a shitty version of that.