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• Excerpt from: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book)

  February 27, 2008

  • Chapter 1 Democracy Before America It is often said that America "invented" democracy. This view is, of course, an understatement; America invented not only democracy, but freedom, justice, liberty, and "time-sharing." But representative democracy is unquestionably our proudest achievement, the creation most uniquely our own, even if the rest of the Western world would ...
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