6 in 10 Canadians say they can never trust Americans the same way again
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It wasn’t about democracy back then either. It was about a small, mostly slave owning, elite taking over.
Yes, the wording there was carefully chosen. It was a rationalist thing and not about democracy, but it was open to the idea at least a bit, while the other thing was a monarchy and an empire (and also slave-owning).
Liberal thinkers at the time definitely tended to side with the Patriots. After the war, going with a new monarchy was considered, but in the end they were nudged into a republic about as democratic as any that had existed to that point.
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