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British colonies on the North American Atlantic coast, with assemblies of white property owners, governors appointed by the Crown, established and dissenting churches, trade under the Navigation Acts, slavery in the South and expansion into Indigenous lands.
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Leans further toward federal than 96% of the 325 countries and regimes in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Structure is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Representation, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most countries.
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Tradition of republics made of sovereign provinces or cantons, such as the Dutch Republic and the old Swiss Confederacy, with local self-government, open trade, armed neutrality and deep-rooted Protestant faith.
American conservative current associated with Ronald Reagan. It combines lower taxes and a smaller federal economic role with free enterprise, traditional religious values, anticommunism and military strength.
Political tradition of the nineteenth-century American South tied to the Confederacy, defending states' rights and secession, an agrarian, patriarchal and Christian society, free trade and a military tradition. Historically, this tradition also defended slavery and racial hierarchy.
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Techno-SocialismRadical Left31%
Founder of Turning Point USA, Kirk organised conservative activism on American campuses defending free markets, Christianity and immigration control, until he was assassinated at a Utah event in 2025.
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In October 2026 Mike Kehoe governs in a Republican trifecta. Voters rejected an income-tax repeal, abortion remains legal through viability, cannabis is legal, and the minimum wage is $15. Voters kept the income tax in August 2026.
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The American frontier after the Civil War, with expanding railroads, mining and ranching, wars against Native peoples, local justice and sheriffs, widely carried firearms and little federal presence.
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