... "one of America's crowning achievements. These changes would occur gradually and without relation to one another, but would ultimately produce political systems that basically modeled the modern American political scheme. From the outset, American politics were relatively democratic when one compares it to the political systems of other nations (most of the world's population at this time lived under some ... ...

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... for all. Although this does mirror some initial acceptance and even encouragement of an almost feudal system, as early as 1630. Aboard the Arbella, en route to the New World, John Winthropp described the inequality of wealth and social/political status (into which people were born at the time) as "for the glory of (the individual's) Creator and the common good ... ...

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