re: #306 psyop

As I see it the European democracies mutated from some form of Monarchy AFTER the US had been established and been around for a few decades (WWI). While our Founding Fathers were influenced in their thinking by Monarchy, the US was a Democratic Republic from the beginning, and had no comparable modern government as a role model.

Only the US has freedom of religion (1st Amendment) written into the founding document.