Although American independence from Britain set an amazing precedent across the world, our government didn't just come from thin air. As a matter of fact, other types of government, such as athhenian and fuedalism, influenced our government.
During the very begining of the colonization of American our government resembled Anthenian styled government and fuedalism in Europe. An Athenian style government was a government that ran much like a republic where the people were able to vote, but simply living in the region wasn't enough to be a citizen. There were those that were superior and those that were inferior, but unfortunately only the superior group was granted citizenship. This part was a direct relationship between colonists and native americans. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only issue with the formation of the American goernment.
Making the category as the superior race just meant you were a citizen, but being a citizen didn't push foward respect very much. In other words, the only way one was able to make an impact was by being successful, and the only way to do that was by owning land. This was called Fuedalism. Therefore, the way many early countries were being ran was extremely bias. This made things extremely hard for those tied to their race or another man's land.
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