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ares623yesterday at 8:36 PM1 replyview on HN

The governments of today weren't formed out of "discussions of power"


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fasterikyesterday at 8:59 PM

The American Revolution was very much a discussion about power. Of course, it wasn't just a discussion (we had to fight a war to defend the new form of government), but it was driven by the same concerns about the distribution of power.