America at 250: still a ‘democratic experiment’

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation

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This weekend marks 250 years since the Second Continental Congress, representing the 13 American colonies, assembled in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence. The country had already been at war for more than a year and would continue its armed struggle against…

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