{"id":696,"date":"2025-07-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/the-american-system-of-democracy-has-crashed\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:00:00","slug":"the-american-system-of-democracy-has-crashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/the-american-system-of-democracy-has-crashed\/","title":{"rendered":"The American system of democracy has crashed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time in America, there was a tyrant. And Congress rejected him totally.<\/p>\n

The tyrant, of course, was King George III, the target of the Declaration of Independence<\/a>. We take it for granted now, but the Declaration was an enormous political innovation – in it, the country that became the United States of America laid claim to certain \u00ab\u00a0unalienable\u00a0\u00bb rights, rights that took precedence over any king or crown.<\/p>\n

To protect those rights, our Founders declared that the People were allowed to \u00ab\u00a0alter\u00a0\u00bb or \u00ab\u00a0abolish\u00a0\u00bb the government – in this case, British rule over the American colonies. <\/p>\n

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The idea that ‘the People’ have ‘unalienable rights’ b \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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