Reflections upon
 the Fourth of July

When the United States was founded as a representative republic, governed upon democratic principles, Austria, and most German states, were members of the Holy Roman Empire; Russia was ruled by an empress, a.k.a. the Autocrat of All the Russias; France was ruled by an absolute monarch; the Middle East was largely under the despotic sway . . . → Read More: Reflections upon
 the Fourth of July