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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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[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

In the case of the USA specifically, at that time and place it was very much in vogue among the educated to be into all the trappings of classical Roman and Greek history. This is also why Greco-Roman style columns and other architectural fripperies were so popular both on plantation houses and government buildings. The founding fathers lifted no small part of their thoughts on democracy from the Greeks.