American Republics

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    As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    It is, said Gargantua, as Plato said ... that republics will be happy when kings philosophize or philosophers reign.
    François Rabelais (1494–1553)