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A polymath, diplomat, and founder of the United States, Franklin united republicanism, free thought, commerce, science, innovation, and institutional pragmatism, symbolizing a liberal, cosmopolitan, Enlightenment strand of modern politics.
Political topics
Benjamin Franklin leans further toward liberty than 80% of the 569 personalities in the catalog.
Of all the topics, Power is where Benjamin Franklin stands furthest from the rest.
On Morality, Benjamin Franklin sits practically at the catalog median.
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Doctrine that organizes the state through a constitutional division of power between a central government and autonomous regional units, such as cantons or states, with their own competencies, independent courts, and mutual checks against excessive concentration of power.
Pro-market centrist branch that combines fiscal responsibility, liberal democracy, moderate international openness, and institutional reform, rejecting both broad statism and libertarian radicalism as a political program.
A system in which citizens decide laws directly through referendums, popular initiatives, assemblies and recall of officials, instead of delegating to representatives, as in the Swiss cantons and classical Athens.
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American comedian and podcaster, host of The Joe Rogan Experience. Anti-establishment populist-libertarian style, unrestricted free speech and institutional skepticism; in 2026 he broke with Trump over the Iran war and ICE policy.
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A southwestern state led by Democrat Katie Hobbs and a Republican legislature. It protects abortion until viability, vetoes religious laws, enforces the Proposition 314 border checks, and charges a flat 2.5% income tax.
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Germany's first democracy, the Weimar Republic united parliamentarism, proportional representation, and intense cultural life, but was undermined by economic crises and political instability that paved the way for Nazism.
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