they thrived
Numerous events occurred between 1857 to 1934. Some of the most important events were the Civil War, World War I, and the Great Depression in America.
The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, referred to in most of the world as the ... nothing happened", in Tiananmen Square
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probably in 1939 but not in Narnia. Most likely world war 2 happened on Earth.
If current Tunisia continues to behave the way it did in the previous election by the time the next election comes, the Arab World will have added "Modern Functional Democracy" to its list of various regime types. However, up to the present day there are no Arab States that are Liberal Democracies. There are numerous Illiberal Democracies in the Arab World, though. In those cases, the Arab Nations were Liberal Democracies on paper with guaranteed voting rights, freedoms of speech and religion, constitutions that bind the authority of the Executive. However, in nearly every Arab regime that this describes (like Saddam Hussein's Iraq, Mubarak's Egypt, ben Ali's Tunisia) these paper rights and limitations did not exist. These rulers used an apparent mechanism of democracy to perpetuate a dictatorship.
unitary system
multi-party systems
Germany is a federal parliamentary republic, and is one of the most liberal democracies in the world.
Yes, but only formal democracies.
multiparty
Many European settlements did occur between the years 1500 and 1770. However, most of the European migration and settlement happened between the 1640s and 1770, as English began to settle the islands in the New World.
No, in all democracies there is censorship of the press... of everything, really. According to the United States Constitution, there is a Freedom of the Press. However, we live in an imperfect world, my friend, so even in America we see censorship of the press.
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things happened like the plague
I agree that most of the worlds governments are republics but for how many are democracies, I think only half of these countries are democracies. note: Sudan is a republic but it is mostly authoritarian. So was Egypt before the Arab Spring. Many African countries are republics but they are dominated by just one party.
No, its one of the most solid democracies in the world. With independent elections every 4 years.
A common definition of “republic” is, to quote the American Heritage Dictionary, “A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them”