Republican Government
Republican forms of government have a rather discouraging history. They usually degenerate into oligarchies when the wealthy seize the levers of power, and dictatorships not long after.
It typically takes a few hundred years.
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose..............J.B.S. Haldane ............................................................................................................ Quantum Mechanics is not only stranger than you imagine, but stranger than you can imagine ............(a version attributed to Richard Feynman)
Republican forms of government have a rather discouraging history. They usually degenerate into oligarchies when the wealthy seize the levers of power, and dictatorships not long after.
It typically takes a few hundred years.
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